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Noun: ergative-absolutive language
  1. A type of language that has an ergative case or in which the direct object of a transitive verb has the same form as the subject of an intransitive verb.
    - ergative language

Type of: language, linguistic communication

Encyclopedia: Ergative-absolutive language

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