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3sNOR-UKAN-3SNORK A-argument ABS argument ABS verb ABS-DAT verbs accusative languages adjunct dative agent and patient agent argument agent role agent-patient verbs anaphor anti-causative alternation anti-passive construction argument bearing argument structure assign a semantic associated auxiliary UKAN Basque Binding Theory Burzio complements controlled argument d-obj d-object d-structure d-structure relations Dixon Dyirbal ERG argument ERG-ABS verb ergative and accusative ergative case marking ergative languages Ergativity Hypothesis evidence example grammatical relations Hale idioms interpretation intransitive involving IZAN lexical M2 marker man-ERG Marantz morphologically ngay nominal non-configurational languages non-finite clauses NOR-NORK verb NORK argument notion of subject noun phrase bearing P-argument patient argument patient role patient single argument patient verbs payi yara phenomena predictions pronouns properties quirky reflexive affix reflexive verb form relative clause s-subject semantic role assignment single argument verbs syntactic THERE-Acc/E topic chain transitive verb two-argument verb UKAN unaccusative verbs unergative verbs verb classes verb's Warlpiri xERG Yidiny Yup'ik ZERIK