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(linguistics) The property of a grammar's (or, by extension, a language's) being ergative; the attribute of possessing a grammatical pattern such that the object of a transitive verb is treated the same way as the subject of an intransitive one, while the subject of the transitive verb is treated differently.

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Related dictionary entries include ergativeness, agentivity, accusativity, resultativity, ditransitivity, grammaticality.

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