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2. Active–stative alignment - Wikipedia

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   In linguistic typology, active–stative alignment (also split intransitive alignment or semantic alignment) is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the sole argument ("subject") of an intransitive clause (often symbolized as S) is sometimes marked in the same way as an agent of a transitive verb (that is, like a subject such as "I" or "she" in English) but other times in the same way ...

3. Agent (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, a grammatical agent is the thematic relation of the cause or initiator to an event. [1] The agent is a semantic concept distinct from the subject of a sentence as well as from the topic.

4. Agent noun - Wikipedia

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   An agentive suffix or agentive prefix is commonly used to form an agent noun from a verb. Examples: English: -er, -or, -ian, -ist; Basque: -le (ikasle 'student' from ikasi 'learn')

5. File:A higher English grammar (IA higherenglishgra00bainrich).pdf

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6. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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   Active–stative (or simply active): The argument (subject) of an intransitive verb can be in one of two cases; if the argument is an agent, as in "He ate", then it is in the same case as the agent (subject) of a transitive verb (sometimes called the agentive case), and if it is a patient, as in "He tripped", then it is in the same case as the ...

7. List of grammatical cases - Wikipedia

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   Agentive case: agent, specifies or asks about who or what; specific agent that is subset of a general topic or subject: it was she who committed the crime; as for him, his head hurts Japanese [5], Mongsen Ao [8] Direct case: direct subject or object of a transitive or intransitive verb I saw her; I gave her the book.

8. Ergative case - Wikipedia

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   In grammar, the ergative case (abbreviated erg) is the grammatical case that identifies a nominal phrase [2] as the agent of a transitive verb in ergative–absolutive languages. [ 3 ] Characteristics

9. Argument (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Psycholinguistic theories must explain how syntactic representations are built incrementally during sentence comprehension. One view that has sprung from psycholinguistics is the argument structure hypothesis (ASH), which explains the distinct cognitive operations for argument and adjunct attachment: arguments are attached via the lexical mechanism, but adjuncts are attached using general (non ...