Talk:Ergative case
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Call me stupid but this article and sadly many articles about linguistic subjects are complete nonsense. They are obvuiously written for people who already know what the meaning is and therefore have no need to look it up. Anybody else, who will probably come here lnked from another artuicle and tries to understand what 'ergative' means will be dumbfounded: within the first sentence he will already come upon 2-3 other words that he needs to look uo, each as incomprehensive as the ergative article. A simpler explanation and perhaps an example could make things so much clearer. 28 feb 2016 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.159.139.10 (talk) 15:41, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
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Is this a clearer explanation: The ergative case is the grammatical case that marks the subject of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages in order to identify it as the subject.? I think so personally, if you agree then maybe someone with some authority on the subject can add it to the page.Bigbossmatt (talk) 05:31, 25 June 2008 (UTC)