Modifies a noun

• marker: Here the ergative case marker ne is required by perfect verb morphology.

• construction: This was an outline of the genesis of the Iranian ergative construction.

• language: In fact, Basque is the only ergative language in Europe.

• pattern: Historically, the construction which the ergative pattern is based on was inherited by all the modern languages from the parent language, Sanskrit.

• system: Discuss the role of reanalysis in the emergence of ergative case systems.

• case: The ergative case is marked with what is called an " epenthetic " k at the end of the word.