Look up ergative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term ergative is used in grammar in three different meanings: Ergative case, the grammatical...
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being ergative morphologically, also show ergativity in syntax. No language has been recorded in which both the morphological and syntactical ergative are...
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erg = 10−7 J = 100 nJ 1 erg = 10−10 sn⋅m = 100 psn⋅m = 100 picosthène-metres 1 erg = 624.15 GeV = 6.2415×1011 eV 1 erg = 1 dyn⋅cm = 1 g⋅cm2/s2 1 erg =...
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the ergative case identifies the agent (the intentful performer of an action) of a verb. In Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) for example, the ergative case...
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hazardous-materials reference book Erg (indoor rower) Erg (tug), a Canadian tug, sunk in Halifax Harbour in 1943 Ergative case This disambiguation page lists...
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Erging may refer to: Ergyng, early medieval Welsh kingdom Indoor rower, type of indoor rower This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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expressed in an ergative language, "Max" in the former and "Jane" in the latter would be parallel grammatically. Also, a different form (the ergative) would be...
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Ergs or ERGS may refer to: Erg, a unit of power Electronic Route Guidance System Enniskillen Royal Grammar School, in Northern Ireland The Ergs!, an American...
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Erg Chigaga (or Erg Chegaga, Berber: ⴻⵔⴳ ⵛⴳⵉⴳⴰ, Arabic: عرق شقاق or Edaya el-Hamra, Arabic: الضاية الحمراء) is the largest and still untouched of the...
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Mikey Erg (real name Mike Yannich) is a punk rock drummer, guitarist, and vocalist, from New Jersey. He has played in numerous bands, most famously The...
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The endoplasmic-reticulum–Golgi intermediate compartment (ERGIC) is an organelle in eukaryotic cells. This compartment mediates transport between the...
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An erg (also sand sea or dune sea, or sand sheet if it lacks dunes) is a broad, flat area of desert covered with wind-swept sand with little or no vegetative...
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Erg Chebbi (Arabic: عرق الشبي) is one of Morocco's several ergs – large seas of dunes formed by wind-blown sand. It is located on the far western edge...
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Morphosyntactic alignment (section Comparison between ergative-absolutive and nominative-accusative)
and accusative cases. Basque is an ergative–absolutive system (or simply ergative). The name stemmed from the ergative and absolutive cases. S is said to...
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Tripartite alignment (redirect from Ergative–accusative language)
transitive (in ergative languages). Thus, whereas in English, "she" in "she runs" patterns with "she" in "she finds it", and an ergative language would...
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ERG (ETS-related gene) is an oncogene. ERG is a member of the ETS (erythroblast transformation-specific) family of transcription factors. The ERG gene...
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Erg S.p.A., acronym for Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone, is an Italian energy company, founded in 1938, and based in Genoa, Italy. Erg was founded by Edoardo...
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The Ergs! are an American punk rock band formed in 2000 in South Amboy, New Jersey, by three high school friends: drummer/lead vocalist Mikey Erg (Mike...
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Erg is a fictional mutant character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Erg makes his first live action appearance on the second...
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The erg agama (Trapelus tournevillei), also commonly known as the Sahara agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic...
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Western Sahara) Erg Taokest Morocco Erg Chebbi Erg Chigaga Erg Znaigui Erg Tinfou Erg Ezzahar Erg Lihoudi Erg Mghiti Erg Smar Erg Jerboia Erg Zemoul Namibia...
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grammar, the absolutive case (abbreviated ABS) is the case of nouns in ergative–absolutive languages that would generally be the subjects of intransitive...
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Mana ERG was the musical project of ex recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist Bruno De Angelis. Born in Rome and grown up in London, he gained experience...
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The Issaouane Erg (also called Issaouane-N-Irrararene) is an approximately 38,000 km2 erg (sand sea) in Algeria's portion of the Sahara desert, located...
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nominative–accusative and ergative–absolutive coding, a phenomenon called split ergativity. In fact, there are relatively few languages that exhibit only ergative–absolutive...
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Ivan Ergić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Ергић, pronounced [ǐvan êrgitɕ]; born 21 January 1981) is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a midfielder....
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distinction drawn here between ergative and object-deletion verbs is based on the role of the subject. The object of a transitive ergative verb is the subject of...
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added to the Ergative): marks the object of some verbs to mean 'by', 'to', 'with'. Adelative case (ending -вай [-vaj]; added to the Ergative): expresses...
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The Grand Erg Oriental (English: 'Great Eastern Sand Sea') is a large erg or "field of sand dunes" in the Sahara Desert. Situated for the most part in...
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The Erg of Bilma is a dune sea (Arabic: erg) in the Ténéré desert region of the south central Sahara Desert. The Erg of Bilma stretches southwest from...
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