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What is Ergativity?
‘Ergativity’ is an umbrella term used in modern typological linguistics to cover a variety of grammatical phenomena. Basically, ergativity is a grammatical pattern in which nouns are inflected or marked for case. Fabricius observed this phenomenon (which he named as nominativus transitivus) in Greenlandic Eskimo in 1801, but in fact Adolf Dirr used the term ‘ergative’ (based upon the Greek word "ergon", plural "erga", ‘work, task’) for the first time in 1912.More -
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