Tripartite language

Linguistic typology
Morphological typology
Analytic language
Synthetic language
Fusional language
Agglutinative language
Polysynthetic language
Oligosynthetic language
Morphosyntactic alignment
Theta role
Syntactic pivot
Nominative-accusative language
Ergative-absolutive language
Active language
Tripartite language
Time Manner Place
Place Manner Time
Subject Verb Object
Subject Object Verb
Verb Subject Object
Verb Object Subject
Object Subject Verb
Object Verb Subject
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A tripartite language is one that marks the agent, experiencer, and patient verb arguments each in different ways. If the language has morphological case, the arguments are marked as so:

• the agent is marked with the ergative case
• the experiencer is marked with the intransitive case
• the patient is marked with the accusative case

Languages lacking case inflections may indicate case with a fixed word order.

Tripartite languages are rare. Some examples are Indo-Aryan, Wangkumara, and Kalaw Lagaw Ya.

See also: Tripartite language, Accusative case, Active language, Agglutinative language, Analytic language, Ergative-absolutive language, Ergative case