Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- noting or pertaining to the grammatical case or inflectional form of the subject of an intransitive verb and the direct object of a transitive verb in an ergative language such as Inuit.
noun
- an absolutive form of a word in an ergative language.
- the absolutive case.
Ergative–absolutive language – Wikipedia
Hieber – An Introduction to Typology, Part III: Grammatical Relations
Categorization of subject and object in nominative–accusative