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[[Image:MorphSyntAlign.svg|thumb|right|This image shows how transitive alignment works, in comparison with the other types of alignment systems.]]

In [[linguistic typology]], '''transitive alignment''' is a type of [[morphosyntactic alignment]] used in a small number of languages in which a single [[grammatical case]] is used to mark both [[argument (linguistics)|arguments]] of a [[transitive verb]], but not with the single argument of an [[intransitive verb]]. Such a situation, which is quite rare among the world's languages, has also been called a ''double-[[oblique case|oblique]]'' clause structure.