Board Thread:Linguistics/@comment-25410520-20150118055513/@comment-28303871-20150118213042

Meuser is right. I should have provided more examples.

In "I like her," "I" is the A, "like" is the V, and "her" is the O. AVO (which would generally be written SVO but we need to be more specific when talking about morphosyntactic alignment).

In "I run," "I" is S and "run" is V. SV

English doesn't have case, so it's somewhat hard to really approximate ergative using English words, especially deep ergativity because the change in semantics is just so foreign.