The term ergative is used in
grammar
In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes doma ...
in three different meanings:
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Ergative case, the grammatical case of the subject of a transitive verb in an ergative-absolutive language
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Ergative–absolutive language, a language in which the subject of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb
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Ergative verb, a verb whose subject when intransitive corresponds to its direct object when transitive
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