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On the Uralic (*)m-Accusative [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2022
A language universal supposed by L. Palmaitis is worded as follows: "In those systems where the special form of accusative is attested, the category of gender does exist." A. P.
Ago Künnap
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Differential Object Marking and the properties of D in the dialects of the extreme south of Italy

Glossa, 2019
This paper discusses two case studies of microvariation in accusative marking in the Italo-Romance varieties of the extreme south of Italy. In particular, the diatopic variation displayed by the dialects of southern Calabria gives rise to peculiar ...
Adam Ledgeway, Giuseppina Silvestri, Norma Schifano   +2 more
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Reduced forms in the nominal morphology of the Lindisfarne Gospel Gloss. A case of accusative/dative syncretism?

, 2020
One of the most characteristic features of the grammar of the Lindisfarne Gospel gloss is the absence of the etymological -e inflection in the dative singular in the paradigm of the strong masculine and neuter declension (a-stems).
Julia Fernández-Cuesta, Nieves Rodríguez-Ledesma   +1 more
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German Passives and English Benefactives

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020
In both English benefactive constructions (John baked Mary a cake) and German kriegen/bekommen-passives (Er kriegte einen Stift geschenkt ‘He got a pen gifted’), the theme argument is accusative-marked but has no way of getting structural accusative case.
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Nicholas Twiner
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Resolving (DAT = ACC) ≠ GEN

Glossa, 2017
The traditional notion of case is too coarse to distinguish between the English prepositional dative and the English shifted dative, the Spanish bare accusative and the Spanish “a” accusative, etc.
Michal Starke
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Comparing Agreement System in Kalhori Kurdish with Laki, Surani, and Kormanji [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2017
Agreement, case marking, and word order are three important means to represent grammatical relations. Languages use these means according to their features.
Mehdi Mehdizadeh, habib gowhari, Gholamhosein Karimi Doostan, Tayebeh Khoshbakht   +3 more
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Greek case system and additional functions of the accusative case [PDF]

, 2013
Данная статья посвящена изучению падежной системы греческого языка, причин и предпосылок возникновения и эволюции дополнительных функций винительного падежа в греческом языке.
Анастасиади, Е.В., Георгиади, А.К.   +1 more
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Double accusative cases in old Persian constructions [PDF]

زبان پژوهی
Introduction The Old Persian language comprises of seven cases, one of which is the accusative case. This case is used in intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive verbs.
Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian, Ehsan Changizi, Jaleh Amouzgar Yeghaneh, Ameneh Zaheri Abdvand   +3 more
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Morphological Alignment in Khorramabad Lori Language [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2023
Every region’s language and dialect have a main influence on the formation of the people’s worldview and identity, but recently these languages and dialects have been left and ignorance endangered for reasons such as the effect of the standard language ...
Fatemeh Akoondi
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Subjects with accusative Case in Japanese: Phasal transfer and anti-locality

Glossa
This paper presents a new argument for phasal transfer and anti-locality based on an analysis of subjects with accusative Case in Japanese. I first show that the distribution of subjects with accusative Case closely interacts with the types of CPs: while
Masahiko Takahashi
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