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1. Grammatical Case

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   Ergative-Absolutive Systems
   Ergative-absolutive systems (e.g., Basque, various Caucasian languages) exhibit a split marking pattern. The subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb share the same case, the absolutive. The subject of a [transitive ver…