Linguistic Typology

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4 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Linguistic Typology.

• Absolutive case — Mark the sole argument of an intransitive clause and the patient-like argument of a transitive clause alike in an ergative-absolutive alignment, contrasting them with the transitive agent.
• Cryptotype — A covert grammatical or semantic category whose effects appear in distribution and combination even though it has no overt morphological marker.
• Ergative–absolutive alignment — A morphosyntactic alignment grouping an intransitive subject with a transitive object and treating the transitive agent differently.
• Word order — The linear arrangement of syntactic constituents through which languages encode or constrain grammatical relations, information structure and discourse effects.