Grammar【语法】
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- relat-ing to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g. Basque and Eskimo) that identifies the doer of an action as the object rather than the subject of a verb（巴斯克语、爱斯基摩语等语言中的名词）动者格的, 主动格的, 唯被动格的。
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- (of a language) possessing this case（语言）有动者格的, 有主动格的。
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- (in English) denoting verbs which can be used both transitively and intransitively to describe the same action, with the object in the former case being the subject in the latter, as in I boiled the kettle and the kettle boiled（英语中的动词）通格的（指描写同一动作的既可用作及物动词又可用作不及物动词的动词, 也即： 用作及物动词时的宾语与用作不及物动词时的主语相同。如I boiled the kettle与the kettle boiled）比较 INCHOATIVE.
派生词
ergativity
noun词源
1950s: from Greek ergatēs 'worker' （from ergon 'work'） + -IVE.