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In
ergative-absolutive languages, the
absolutive (
abbreviated ABS) is the
grammatical case used to mark both the subject of an
intransitive verb and the object of a
transitive verb. It contrasts with the
ergative case, which marks the subject of transitive verbs.
For example, in
Basque the noun
mutil ("boy") takes the absolutive singular ending
-a both as subject of the intransitive clause
mutila etorri da ("the boy came") and as object of the transitive clause
Irakasleak mutila ikusi du ("the teacher has seen the boy"), in which the subject bears the ergative ending
-ak.
In the languages of this kind, the
ergative case is typically
marked (most salient), while the absolutive case is unmarked. For this reason, words in absolutive case are usually used as the
lemma to represent a
lexeme.
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