Case valuation after scrambling: Nominative objects in Japanese
Glossa, 2018 This paper provides new evidence for the claim that nominative objects in Japanese undergo overt movement without remaining at their base-generated positions, based on a variant of the construction which has not received as much attention as its complex ...
Hironobu Kasai
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Processing ergativity in compound light verb constructions: electrophysiological evidence from Hindi [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceIntroductionErgativity marks subject arguments as agents of a transitive event and thereby signals verbal transitivity and influences language comprehension.MethodWe report here on an event-related brain potentials (ERP) study in Hindi, in which we ...
Anna Merin Mathew +4 more
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Structure Influences Case Processing: Electrophysiological Insights from Hindi Light Verb Constructions [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground: Case marking serves as a crucial cue in sentence processing, enabling the prediction of upcoming arguments, thematic roles, and event structure.
Anna Merin Mathew +3 more
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Nominative Case Unmarking in Korean
Studies in Modern Grammar, 2020 This paper investigates Nominative Case drop/ellipsis or unmarking in Korean. Kwon and Zribi-Hert (2008) and H. Lee (2020) claim that Nominative Case unmarking occurs in direct perception situations where identification of the agent role of an event participant (represented by a Nom Case-less subject NP) can be grounded in the here and now of utterance
Myungkwan Park
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Specific Names in the Nominative Case
The Auk, 1919 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
J. Grinnell
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Modalities of case assignment: The view from Lithuanian
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 This paper assesses two competing modalities for the assignment of morphological case. Arguments are provided from Lithuanian against the configurational strategy of Dependent Case (Marantz 1991, Baker 2015) and in favor of case assignment by functional ...
James E. Lavine
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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 +3 more
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Dative as the unmarked unmarked case in Hungarian
Linguistica Brunensia, 2021 Hungarian nominative and dative DPs alternate in particular constructions. We show standard theory, where cases are licensed by heads, is unable to cope with the data and present a different analysis of the distribution of these cases within Dependent ...
Mark Newson, Krisztina Szécsényi
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Animacy or case marker order?: priority information for online sentence comprehension in a head-final language. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 It is well known that case marker information and animacy information are incrementally used to comprehend sentences in head-final languages. However, it is still unclear how these two kinds of information are processed when they are in competition in a ...
Satoru Yokoyama +2 more
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Use of the Nominative of Samoyedic Substantives as Instances of Object and Attribute; pp. 119-126 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2009 The objective of this article is to present observations on the use of the nominative of Samoyedic substantives as instances of object and attribute. Namely, thanks to N. M.
Ago Künnap
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