 Tariana is essentially a [[nominative–accusative language|nominative–accusative]] [[morphosyntactic alignment]].Its core cases are broadly analyzed as falling into the categories of A/S 'subject' and non-A/S 'non-subject'.A stands for a transitive subject, S for a subject of an intransitive verb, S for a subject of an active intransitive verb, Sₒfor a subject of a stative intransitive verb, and S for a subject of an intransitive verb with a non-canonically marked argument.