• In grammar, the accusative case (abbreviated ACC) of a noun is the grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb. In the English...
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    In linguistic typology, nominative–accusative alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which subjects of intransitive verbs are treated like...
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  • The accusative absolute is a grammatical construction found in some languages. It is an absolute construction found in the accusative case. In ancient...
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  • In grammar, accusative and infinitive (also Accusativus cum infinitivo or accusative plus infinitive, frequently abbreviated ACI or A+I) is the name for...
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  • groups: those that are morphologically ergative but syntactically behave as accusative (for instance, Basque, Pashto and Urdu) and those that, on top of being...
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  • grammatical system of a language. This is in contrast with nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive alignment languages, in which the argument of...
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  • represent the perceiver and the accusative pronouns me/them represent the phenomenon perceived. Here, nominative and accusative are cases, that is, categories...
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  • represents a typical nominative–accusative system (accusative for short). The name derived from the nominative and accusative cases. Basque is an ergative–absolutive...
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  • sentence, their form changes to one of the five cases (nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, or dative). The set of forms that a noun will take for each...
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  • Semi-prepositions. Internal object/cognate accusative structure The accusative of specification (al-tamyīz, ٱلتَّمْيِيزُ). The accusative of purpose (al-maf‘ūl li-ajlihi...
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