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Absolutive
Absolutive meaning
Of or pertaining to the grammatical case prototypically used to indicate the sole argument of an intransitive verb, and the more patientive argument of a transitive verb. | Of, exhibiting, or pertaining to absolution; absolutory, absolving.
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In each paradigm, each constituent noun can take on any of eight persons, five singular and three plural, with the exception of nor-nori-nork in which the absolutive can only be third person singular or plural.
In such situations, the term 'absolutive' could aptly describe the nominative, but the term is seldom used that way.
Morphosyntactic alignment main Another common classification distinguishes nominative–accusative alignment patterns and ergative–absolutive ones.
The absolutive case ( abbreviated ) is the unmarked grammatical case of a core argument of a verb (generally other than the nominative ) that is used as the citation form of a noun.
The ergative–absolutive alignment is also rare among European languages—occurring only in some Caucasian languages in the Caucasus —but not infrequent worldwide.
The unmarked accusative/citation form may be called absolutive to clarify that the citation form is used for the accusative case role rather than for the nominative, as it is in most nominative–accusative languages.
This dizkit can be split like this: * di- is used in the present tense when the verb has a subject (ergative), a direct object (absolutive), and an indirect object, and the object is him/her/it/them.