1. plural of ergativity; the linguistic property of a language or construction in which the subject of an intransitive verb is treated grammatically like the object of a transitive verb, rather than like the subject of a transitive verb.
Usage: linguistics; technical term; plural form

Examples

• Ergativities are found in many languages across the world, including Basque, Georgian, and many Australian Aboriginal languages.
• Linguists study ergativities to understand how different languages organize grammatical relationships.
• The ergativities of Dravidian languages present interesting challenges for syntactic analysis.
• Some languages display split ergativities, where ergativity applies only in certain tenses or aspects.
• Comparative studies of ergativities help reveal universal principles of human language structure.