a type of verb (a word used to express an act, occurrence, or mode of being) [n ERGATIVES]
a certain grammatical inflection [n -S]
form or construction of similar function or meaning
a. (in certain languages, as Basque, Eskimo, and some Caucasian languages) noting a case that indicates the subject of a transitive verb and is distinct from the case indicating the subject of an intransitive verb b. similar to such a case i
pertaining to a type of language that has an ergative case or in which the direct object of a transitive verb has the same form as the subject of an intransitive verb