ergative vs transitive

ergative

noun
  • An ergative verb or other expression. 

adj
  • With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from that of an intransitive construction. 

transitive

noun
  • A transitive verb. 

adj
  • Affected by transference of signification. 

  • Taking a direct object or objects. 

  • Making a transit or passage. 

  • Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. 

  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. 

  • Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. 

How often have the words ergative and transitive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )