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A tripartite language, also called an '''ergative-accusative language''', is one that marks the Agent, Experiencer, And Patient Verb Argument s each in different ways. If the language has Morphological Case , the arguments are marked in this way:
In simpler terms, it distinguishes between the subject of an intransitive verb, the subject of a transitive verb and the object (of a transitive verb). Languages lacking case inflections may indicate case with a fixed word order. Tripartite languages are rare. Some examples are Indo-Aryan , Wangkumara , Nez Percé and Kalaw Lagaw Ya . Several Constructed Language s, especially Engineered Language s, use a tripartite case system or tripartite adposition system. |