Tripartite language
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| Linguistic typology |
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| Morphological typology |
| Analytic language |
| Synthetic language |
| Fusional language |
| Agglutinative language |
| Polysynthetic language |
| Oligosynthetic language |
| Morphosyntactic alignment |
| Theta role |
| Syntactic pivot |
| Nominative-accusative language |
| Ergative-absolutive language |
| Active language |
| Tripartite language |
| Time Manner Place |
| Place Manner Time |
| Subject Verb Object |
| Subject Object Verb |
| Verb Subject Object |
| Verb Object Subject |
| Object Subject Verb |
| Object Verb Subject |
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A tripartite language is one that marks the agent, experiencer, and patient verb arguments each in different ways. If the language has morphological case, the arguments are marked as so:
- the agent is marked with the ergative case
- the experiencer is marked with the intransitive case
- the patient is marked with the accusative case
Languages lacking case inflections may indicate case with a fixed word order.
Tripartite languages are rare. Some examples are Indo-Aryan, Wangkumara, and Kalaw Lagaw Ya.
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