unergative
Meanings
Adjective
- Intransitive and having an agent as its subject.
Noun
- An unergative verb.
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Origin
- un- + ergative, from the fact that in an ergative-absolutive language, the only case which uniquely identifies a volitional argument is the ergative case, which marks the agent of a transitive verb.
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