ergative
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 源自 ←古希腊语 ἐργᾰ́της “labourer, worker”
原始词根
原始印欧语 *werǵ-
词源说明
From Ancient Greek ἐργᾰ́της (ergắtēs, “labourer, worker”) + English -ive (suffix meaning ‘belong or relating to; of the nature of; serving to; tending to’ forming adjectives).
释义（英文）
形容词 Adjective
- (grammar) With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of an intransitive construction.
名词 Noun
- (grammar) Ellipsis of ergative case (“a grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages”).
- (grammar) An ergative verb