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The copula as a nominative Case marker

The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages, 2019
In Korean the morpheme /-I/ has conventionally been taken to be a copula, since it functions as a host for tense affixes when the predicate is a nominal. This chapter, however, argues that it is a nominative Case marker on the basis of morpho-phonological and syntactic evidence.
Kwang-sup Kim
exaly   +3 more sources

Successive-cyclic case assignment: Korean nominative-nominative case-stacking

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2016
In recent literature, a debate has arisen between two theories of the calculation and realization of morphological case. The more commonly held Agree model states that all case features are assigned to nominals by nearby functional heads. Given a designated case-assigning functional head F, and a nominal α that is c-commanded by F, the case-marking ...
Theodore Levin
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Subject agreement in Kalmyk: Implications for nominative case assignment

Acta Mongolica
This paper investigates the nature of nominative case assignment and its relationship to agreement and finiteness in Kalmyk Oirat (or Kalmyk), a variety of the Oirat language (Mongolic) spoken in the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia and in diasporic ...
Jun Jie Lim
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

The nominative case

2017
Fred Karlsson
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Nouns: nominative case

2020
T. Filosofova
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Use of Nominative Case

2010
H. J. Roby
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Rethinking Verb Second and Nominative case assignment

, 2020
Cimbrian is a German(ic) VO heritage language that does not display the linear V2 restriction: the DP subject can show up before the finite verb together with other constituents, while German-like verb-subject inversion only obtains with clitic pronouns.
Ermenegildo Bidese, Andrea Padovan, A. Tomaselli   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The morphology of the Nominative case in Somali

, 1984
Assuming Hyman's analysis of Somali as a tonal accent language, the paper discusses the morphology of the nominative case in this language. ; Maqaalku, isagoo tixraacaya baaristii Hayman oo tilmaamayso in af-soomaaligu uu yahay af tonal ah, ayaa wuxuu ka hadlayaa sarfaha kayska yeelaha ee Af-soomaaliga.
Banti, Giorgio
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The position of nominative NPs in Japanese: Evidence for nominative NPs in-situ

Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 2011
This paper presents some new data of the Japanese language, which shows that the nominative NP, particularly the nominative subject, can stay in-situ and that in a certain case, it cannot move to the Spec of TP. These examples come from a certain type of
Kazuma Fujimaki
exaly   +2 more sources