Nouns decline into three cases, Absolutive, Ergative and Comitative. Absolutive case is unmarked while the other two use vowel changes on the final vowel a
====Ergative case====
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Nouns only mark for ergative, absolutive (lack of marking and citation form) and construct. Appart from these, Teutl
! Absolutive
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! Ergative
! colspan=2 | Absolutive
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![http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergative_case Ergative]
...rb] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergative-absolutive_language ergative-absolutive languages]
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====Ergative-absolutive====
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...ce the spring of 2021. Nymeran is a verb-initial (ostensibly VSO) ergative-absolutive language spoken by the descendants of the once verdant civilization of Nym,
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Linguistically, Eistali is an Ergative-Absolutive language, with synthetic and fusional syntax. Its default word order is VOS
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last vowel of the absolutive form of the noun
the absolutive form e.g.
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Finite clauses have unmarked word order SV, OAV and use ergative syntax:
''Mi''-infinitive clauses lack the ergative argument when using transitive verbs, and use OV order and accusative synta
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...absolutive pattern. There is however syncretism between the nominative and absolutive cases, as both are unmarked.
* ergative: marks the agent of a verb
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..., and valence operations affixes. Its morphological alignment is Ergative-Absolutive, and canonical word order is SOV. The reader is advised to go to the [[Min
# ERG - Ergative
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...structed and well-planned ergative system, which features a balanced split ergative system.
...ral languages. ámman îar avoids this artificiality with its balanced split ergative system.
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...noun, even though it also countains the inanimate noun ''ēl'' "word". The ergative marker ''-es'' shows the boundary of the phrase and that it performs the ro
| [[w:Absolutive case|absolutive]] || ''ŋir'''i''''' || ''khiŋ'' ||''kōwa''
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*Vowels in pink are phonemic at the end of words, where they mark ergative case, and are allophones elsewhere. They occur before another syllable begi
*'kówntátu /kouɴˤtaˤtu/ – acquaintance, absolutive
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!|Absolutive
!|Ergative
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*Ergative-absolutive case marking on nouns (if any is present at all).
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The [[Antarctican]] language is syntactically ergative and topic prominent. Some flexibility is allowed in word order, however phr
The basic word order is (Topic) (Ergative Noun) Verb (Absolutive Noun). So in intransitive sentences the word order is either V-S or S-V (if
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...s tripartite. However, if the noun is inanimate, the alignment is ergative-absolutive.
'''ABS''' - absolutive case<br />
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Proto-Tassinean has seven noun cases: '''nominative''', '''ergative''', '''absolutive''', '''dative''', '''genitive''', '''instrumentative''' and '''locative''',
! Nominative !! Ergative !! Absolutive !! Dative !! Genitive !! Instrumentative !! Locative
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...e'''), while the ''agent'' of a transitive verb is treated differently ('''ergative'''). In English, this would read as follows:
! rowspan="4"|Absolutive
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