Board Thread:Linguistics/@comment-25410520-20150118055513/@comment-25410520-20150119034518

What exatly is the ergative case, and the absolutive case? I'm sorry but I'm just so confused. Could you give some more examples of a Nominative-Accusative sentence (maybe with the case written in parenthesis) and what it would be in Ergative Absolutive. And with Tripartite case doesn't matter at all and all nouns verbs and objects act independent of each other.

My understanding in the beginning is that in nominative-accusative languages verb conjugates with the subject, the subject being the most important part of the sentence; and that in ergative-absolutive languages the verb conjugates to the object, the object being the most important part of the sentence; and that in the tripartite alignment the subject, verb, and object arn't affected by each other.