Abstract
In an accusative case marking system the S and A appear in the nominative case and the P in the accusative. In an ergative system of case marking the S and P take the absolutive case and the A the ergative. Though there are languages in which both the nominative and accusative are overtly marked and also languages in which the nominative is overtly marked while the accusative is not, typically the nominative takes zero marking and the accusative overt marking as in the examples in (1) from Kannada.
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