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Loss of the vocative case and its reflection in Old and Middle Russian monuments of business writing
Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2023 The purpose of this article is to describe the loss of the vocative case in Russian language on the material of Old and Middle Russian monuments of business writing.
T. V. Khadyeva
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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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Unaccusative verbs in Modern Standard Arabic [PDF]
Saudi Journal of Language Studies, 2023 Purpose – The purpose of this research was to analyze the unaccusative verb in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) within the framework of MP in order to answer the research question: How does the single argument of an unaccusative verb, that carries the theme ...
Thana Mahmood Alonini
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Morphosyntactic realignment and markedness change in Late Latin: Evidence from charter texts
Pallas, 2016 This paper discusses how the Latin accusative became the unmarked default case and how this markedness turn is related to the morphosyntactic realignment of the grammatical relations in Late Latin.
Timo Korkiakangas
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Numeral Subjects in Polish: Surface Morphology vs. Abstract Syntax [PDF]
Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 Numeral subjects in Polish show a non-uniform agreement pattern with the verb depending on the cardinality of the numeral (paucal vs. high) and the gender of the NP. Full agreement shows with paucal numerals (
Jacek Witkoś
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The Nominative Puzzle and the Low Nominative Hypothesis [PDF]
, 2006 Under the view of nominative Case taken by Chomsky (2000, 2001), one would expect nominative to be the marked or complex Case, being merged after accusative.
Sigurðsson, Halldor Armann +1 more
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Case Endings in Standard Arabic
الآداب, 2018 This study aims briefly at describing and analyzing some aspects of Case endings in Standard Arabic. This is because that Case seems to play a significant role in the grammar of not only Arabic but also in the grammar of many other languages.
محمد علي محمد قرابش
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An active analysis of Basque ergativity
Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 1999 Previous generative work on Basque syntax has attempted to equate either the NOR or the NORK case in Basque with a “subject case” corresponding structurally to nominative.
Arthur Holmer
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Frá skiptisögn til ósamhverfrar aukafallssagnar. Um 'líka' í fornu máli
Orð og Tunga, 2020 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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Possessor raising and structural variations within the vP domain
Glossa, 2023 In this paper, we analyze external possessors in Brazilian Portuguese, showing that those realizing Nominative-Case (Nominative-possessors) are not syntactically uniform, varying derivationally.
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