Ergative-genitive case

In grammar, the ergative-genitive case (abbreviated EGN) is a grammatical case which combines the senses of the ergative case and the genitive case, transmitting the ideas of acting and possessing something. It can be found in Classic Maya, Ixil, Nez Perce, and Inuktitut.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Aldridge, Edith (2017-08-10). Coon, Jessica; Massam, Diane; Travis, Lisa Demena (eds.). Intransitivity and the Development of Ergative Alignment. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.21.
^ Rude, Noel (1991). "On the Origin of the Nez Perce Ergative NP Suffix". International Journal of American Linguistics. 57 (1): 24–50. ISSN 0020-7071.

Grammatical cases

List of cases
Declension
Morphosyntactic alignment

Cases

Morphosyntactic alignment	Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative
Location, time, direction	Ablative Adessive Allative Antessive Apudessive Approximative Delative Distributive -temporal Egressive Elative Illative Inelative Inessive Intrative Lative Limitative Locative -qualitative Medial Perlative Pertingent Postdirective Postelative Postessive Prolative Subdirective Subelative Subessive Sublative Superdirective Superelative Superessive Superlative Temporal Terminative
Possession, companion, instrument	Abessive Caritive Comitative Dative Genitive Instrumental -comitative Ornative Possessed Possessive Privative Sociative
State, manner	Adverbial Comparative Equative Essive -formal -modal Exessive Formal Instructive Modal Multiplicative Orientative Revertive Semblative Translative
Cause, purpose	Aversive Benefactive Causal -final Final
Other	Postpositional/Prepositional Vocative