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Absolutive Case

Absolutive Case is a grammatical case marking the subject of an intransitive verb or the patient of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages, distinguishing it from agents marked with the ergative case.

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2017–2026

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Variants

Absolutive

Parents

Publications

17

Morphological and Abstract Case

Julie Anne Legate · Linguistic Inquiry · 2008 · 581 citations

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Case inflection and nominal head marking in Dinka

Torben Andersen · Journal of African Languages and Linguistics · 2002 · 223 citations

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Generative Approaches to Ergativity

Edith Aldridge · Language and Linguistics Compass · 2008 · 189 citations

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The bi-absolutive construction in Nakh-Daghestanian

Diana Forker · Folia Linguistica · 2012 · 189 citations

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An Ergative Historiography

Jonathan Seely · Historiographia Linguistica · 1977 · 161 citations

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Authors

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  1. EA
    Edith Aldridge

    University of Washington, United States

    2 publications · 274 citations

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  2. DF
    Diana Forker

    University of Bamberg, Germany

    1 publications · 189 citations

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  3. JA
    Julie Anne Legate

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    1 publications · 581 citations

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  4. TA
    Torben Andersen

    Aalborg University, Denmark

    1 publications · 223 citations

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  5. PR
    Pavel Rudnev

    National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

    1 publications · 25 citations

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Institutions

14

  1. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    608 citations

  2. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    158 citations

  3. South College

    Knoxville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    125 citations

  4. Amherst College

    Amherst Center, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    125 citations

  5. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    189 citations

  6. National Research University Higher School of Economics

    Moscow, Russia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

  7. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    New Brunswick, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  8. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

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Venues

  1. Glossa a journal of general linguistics

    2 publications · 73 citations

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  2. Linguistic Inquiry

    2 publications · 606 citations

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  3. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

    2 publications · 158 citations

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  4. Russian Linguistics

    1 publications · 27 citations

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