Editing Morphosyntactic alignment (section)

{{Short description|Grammatical relationship between arguments}}
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In [[linguistics]], '''morphosyntactic alignment''' is the grammatical relationship between [[Argument (linguistics)|argument]]s—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject and object) of [[transitive verb]]s like ''the dog chased the cat'', and the single argument of [[intransitive verb]]s like ''the cat ran away''. English has a ''[[subject (grammar)|subject]],'' which merges the more active argument of transitive verbs with the argument of intransitive verbs, leaving the ''[[object (grammar)|object]]'' in transitive verbs distinct; other languages may have different strategies, or, rarely, make no distinction at all. Distinctions may be made [[morphology (linguistics)|morphologically]] (through [[grammatical case|case]] and [[agreement (linguistics)|agreement]]), [[syntax|syntactically]] (through [[word order]]), or both.