Editing Nominative–accusative alignment (section)

===Verb agreement===
Alternatively, alignment can also manifest visibly through agreement on the verb. In the following example from [[Amharic language|Amharic]], the verb can be [[dependency grammar|head-marked]] for S, A, and O. Both S in the intransitive clause and A in the transitive clause are marked by the same affix (''-ə'' ‘3SG.M’), while O in the transitive clause is marked by a different affix (''-w'' ‘3SG.M.O’).<ref name=vdv/>

;Amharic

:'''intransitive'''
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|Ləmma hed-'''ə'''
|Lemma go.PFV-3SG.M
|‘Lemma came’}}

:'''transitive'''
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|Ləmma   t’ərmus-u-n        səbbər-'''ə'''-w
|Lemma   bottle-DEF-ACC     break.PFV-3SG.M-3SG.M.O
|‘Lemma breaks the bottle’}}

English has residual verb agreement with nominative–accusative alignment, which is only manifest with third person singular S and A in present tense.<ref>Bickel, Balthasar; Iemmolo, Giorgio; Zakharko, Taras; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena (2013). [https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-79050 "Patterns of alignment in verb agreement"]. In: Bakker, Dik; Haspelmath, Martin. ''Languages across boundaries: Studies in memory of Anna Siewierska.'' Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 15-36.</ref>