A verbal case system may thus be synonymous with morphosyntactic alignment.

To see why a single case can play such distinct roles at all, read morphosyntactic alignment, and also a short table about it.

For morphosyntactic alignment, many Australian languages have ergative-absolutive case systems.

See morphosyntactic alignment for a more technical explanation and a comparison with nominative-accusative languages.

The syntactic pivot is a feature of the morphosyntactic alignment of the language.

The morphosyntactic alignment is nominative-accusative; but there are two object cases: accusative and partitive.

Direct-inverse systems on verbs coexist with the various morphosyntactic alignments in nouns.

This has led to the interpretation that in Otomi morphosyntactic alignment is split between active-stative and accusative systems.

Typologically, it is a highly agglutinating language with subject-verb-object word order and nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment.

The morphosyntactic alignment of Kalaallisut is ergative.

Pronouns are typologically nominals also, yet their morphosyntactic alignment is nominative-accusative rather than ergative-absolutive.

Tariana exhibits an essentially nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment.

Diyari has three different morphosyntactic alignments:

Nez Perce is thus an example of the very rare type of tripartite languages (see morphosyntactic alignment).

Languages are categorized into several case systems, based on their morphosyntactic alignment - how they group verb agents and patients into cases:

Morphosyntactic alignment (linguistics)

Verdurian has SVO word order, fusional morphology, and accusative morphosyntactic alignment.

In morphosyntactic alignment terms, both perform the accusative function, but the accusative object is telic, while the partitive is not.

In linguistics, 'morphosyntactic alignment' is the system used to distinguish between the verb arguments of transitive verbs and those of intransitive verbs.

According to Russian linguistic experts, they likely spoke a polysynthetic or synthetic language with an active form of morphosyntactic alignment, exhibiting a linguistically and culturally unified community.

The morphosyntactic alignment of Mixe is ergative and it also has an obviative system which serves to distinguish between verb participants in reference to its direct-inverse system.

Ross reconstructed three pronoun paradigms for proto-South Bougainville, free forms plus agentive and patientive (see morphosyntactic alignment) affixes:

Morphosyntactic alignment determines which arguments can be omitted in a coordinate structure during the process of conjunction reduction (deleting arguments from the ends of joined clauses).

Austronesian alignment, commonly known as the Philippine- or Austronesian-type voice system, is a typologically unusual morphosyntactic alignment that combines features of ergative and accusative languages.

A nominative-absolutive language, also called a marked nominative language, is a language with an unusual morphosyntactic alignment similar to, and often considered a subtype of, a nominative-accusative alignment.