nominativaccuzativ

Nominativaccuzativ refers to a grammatical case system found in a few languages where the nominative and accusative cases are not distinguished. This means that the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective used as the subject of a sentence (nominative) is the same as the form used as the direct object (accusative). This contrasts with languages that have a clear distinction between these two cases, such as many Indo-European languages like German or Latin.

In languages with nominativaccuzativ alignment, word order or other grammatical markers often become more important for determining the subject and object roles in a sentence. For instance, a language might consistently place the subject before the verb and the object after the verb, or it might use prepositions or postpositions to clarify grammatical function. Some scholars refer to this type of alignment as "neutral" or "unmarked" because it lacks the case distinction found in more common accusative or ergative systems. The absence of a distinct accusative case does not imply a lack of grammatical structure, but rather a different approach to marking core grammatical relations. The term nominativaccuzativ itself is a compound, directly referencing the two cases that have merged.