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Frá skiptisögn til ósamhverfrar aukafallssagnar. Um 'líka' í fornu máli
In Modern Icelandic the verb líka ‘like’ occurs with a subject in the dative case and an object in the nominative case. It has been argued that this was also the case in Old Icelandic.
Einar Freyr Sigurðsson +1 more
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Partially ordered case hierarchies
I argue that patterns of case syncretism across languages can be modelled by partially, rather than totally, ordered case hierarchies. Partially ordered case hierarchies avoid the need for postulating multiple instances of the same case while retaining ...
András Bárány
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The Development, Preservation and Loss of Differential Case Marking in Inner Asia Minor Greek [PDF]
In Cappadocian and Pharasiot, the two main members of the inner Asia Minor Greek dialect group, the head nouns of NPs found in certain syntactic positions are marked with the accusative if the relevant NPs are definite and with the nominative if the NPs ...
Karatsareas, P.
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The Optional Use of Morphological Case
This paper provides a unified account of construction alternations in which case markers are involved, extending the traditional focus on the differential use of core case markers (DCM).
Sander Lestrade
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Strategies for Expressing Possession in Some Iranian Linguistic Varieties [PDF]
The present study aims at reviewing the strategies employed in some Iranian linguistic varieties in order to express possession. To do so, first the type of possessive strategy used in each variety was described based upon the categorization made by ...
Shahla Sharifi, Narjes Banoo Sabouri
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Differential Object Marking and Nominal Licensing
This paper presents a novel account of Differential Object Marking as an instance of case assigned by a post-syntactic Agree-Case operation that transduces agreement relations established in the syntax by marking the goal rather than the probe.
Ümit ATLAMAZ
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Dont write, just mark: the validity of assessing student ability via their computerized peer-marking of an essay rather than their creation of an essay [PDF]
This paper reports on a case study that evaluates the validity of assessing students via a computerized peer-marking process, rather than on their production of an essay in a particular subject area.
Davies, Phil, Phil Davies
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The phonological basis of Latin case patterns
This study focuses on accounting for allomorphy in Latin case/number inflection. It attributes essentially all of it to the influence of adjacent features of standard segmental phonology on morphemes expressing case assignment.
Emonds Joseph Embley
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In case-marking languages like German, nonstandard nominative-dative verbs lead to enhanced processing costs. So far, it is unclear if these case-marking effects reflect the special syntax or semantics of nominative-dative verbs.
Anna Czypionka, Carsten Eulitz
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Gradient Effects of Animacy on Differential Object Marking in Turkish
Animacy is a pervasive cognitive category that is displayed in the grammatical behavior of the world’s languages through categorical or gradient effects.
Krause Elif, von Heusinger Klaus
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