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The last question deals with the Case of the internal argument. Presumably, the Case in formal English is [+Nom]. In colloquial Standard English, the Case is probably [-Nom], since the predicate ...
Case theory deals with a special property that all noun phrases are assumed to have. If they lack this feature, the sentence which contains the phrase is rendered ungrammatical. It is a theory of the ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latestLetter news every morning. Sir, In his letter about prepositions and adverbs (April 13), David Culp is making up grammar on the hoof.
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Vol. 15, No. 1, Feb., 1997 Four-Way Case Systems: Ergative, Nominative, Objective and Accusative This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. In ...