For ergative–absolutive alignment, the direction of assignment is right to left, with absolutive preceding ergative.
Chukchi is largely agglutinative and has ergative–absolutive alignment.
In linguistics, the ergative case parameter is a proposed parameter that classifies a language as ergative-absolutive or nominative-accusative accordingly to how nouns are declined as subjects or objects of a sentence.
Its case marking follows the ergative–absolutive pattern where the subject of an intransitive verb is in the absolutive case (which is unmarked), the same case being used for the direct object of a transitive verb.
Like many Native American languages, Jacaltec has a lot of complex agglutinative morphology and uses ergative–absolutive case alignment.
The absolutive case marks the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb (see ergative languages).
There are ergative structure in Lari verbal morphology, which is distinct from Persian.
Another common classification distinguishes nominative–accusative languages and ergative–absolutive ones.
The morphosyntactic alignment of Mixe is ergative and it also has an obviative system which serves to distinguish between verb participants in reference to its direct–inverse system.
From a grammatical or typological point of view, they share agglutinative, ergative-absolutive languages, with the same system of declension.
In any of the past tenses (simple past, past progressive, present perfect, past perfect), Pashto is an ergative language; i.e., transitive verbs in any of the past tenses agree with the object of the sentence.
Split ergativity is shown by languages that have a partly ergative behaviour, but employ another syntax or morphology—usually accusative—in some contexts.
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Adyghe also declines nouns into four different cases, each with corresponding suffixes: absolutive, ergative, instrumental, and invertive.
A nominative–absolutive language, also called a marked nominative language, is a language with an unusual morphosyntactic alignment similar to, and often considered a subtype of, a nominative–accusative alignment.
It has agreement between subject and object, and a split-ergative morphosyntactic system.
Tripartite language, also called an ergative–accusative language, a language treats the subject of an intransitive verb, the subject of a transitive verb, and the object of a transitive verb each in different ways