单词 absolutive 释义 BETA

Examples ofabsolutive

Dictionary> Examples ofabsolutiveabsolutiveisn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help!Add a definitionIn languages with rich head-marking, agreement is non-canonical if, for example, a subject determines object or indirect object agreement rather than subject, ergative orabsolutiveagreement.From theCambridge English CorpusIn contrast, languages with split ergative case-marking, which allow subjects of transitive verbs and intransitive verbs to take both ergative andabsolutivecase-marking, might raise additional challenges.From theCambridge English CorpusPalmer's grammatical roles correspond to theta roles and his grammatical relations subsume roughly all types of structual case positions (subject, object, ergative,absolutive).From theCambridge English CorpusThey are second declension, and distinguish number in the ergative, locative, and lative cases, as well as theabsolutive.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The person suffixes express the persons of theabsolutivesubject/object and the ergative subject.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theabsolutivesuffix indicates the absence of a possessor.From theCambridge English CorpusIn ergative-absolutivelanguages, the lowest nonoblique argument getsabsolutiveand the next lowest gets ergative.From theCambridge English CorpusThat is, one stem occurs in theabsolutivecase, and a second stem is the basis of all other case forms.From theCambridge English CorpusPartial reduplication like (2) is used exclusively in theabsolutivesingular.From theCambridge English CorpusAbsolutiveconstructions are clauses with a past participle that modify a postposed noun phrase and agree with it in number and gender.From theCambridge English CorpusThe ergative case is marked with one of four morphemes but there is no marking forabsolutivecase.From theCambridge English CorpusThe formal hierarchy is based on the morphological complexity of the marking : nominative\\absolutiveaccusative\\ergative dative\\other oblique adposition (436).From theCambridge English CorpusThe final -tl, of course, is theabsolutivenoun suffix.From theCambridge English CorpusIn addition, these authors found the ergative case morpheme was omitted more often than theabsolutiveplural determiner before vowels.From theCambridge English CorpusNouns have anabsolutivesuffix, -tl (i) or -li.From theCambridge English CorpusAs a reviewer noted, 'hau' (this one) in the sentence could be interpreted as anabsolutiveobject or a non-marked ergative subject, depending on the context.From theCambridge English CorpusCritically, there are several examples in my data of children producing an argument which is clearly marked withabsolutivecase rather than simply missing ergative case.From theCambridge English CorpusNakamura (1997) focuses on ergative/absolutiveversus nominative/accusative systems and has nothing to offer on our question.From theCambridge English Corpus

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