Editing Nominative–accusative alignment (section)

{{Short description|Concept of sentence structure in linguistics}}
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[[File:Accusative alignment.svg|thumb|right|Nominative–accusative alignment]]

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In [[linguistic typology]], '''nominative–accusative alignment''' is a type of [[morphosyntactic alignment]] in which subjects of [[intransitive verb]]s are treated like subjects of [[transitive verb]]s, and are distinguished from objects of transitive verbs in basic clause constructions. Nominative–accusative alignment can be coded by [[grammatical case|case]]-marking, verb [[agreement (linguistics)|agreement]] and/or [[word order]]. It has a wide global distribution and is the most common alignment system among the world's languages (including English). Languages with nominative–accusative alignment are commonly called '''nominative–accusative languages'''.