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case
system of marking that provides information about an NP's function within the sentence
usually by indicating its grammatical relation and/or thematic role
usually expressed by inflection, which can be in the form of affixation or suppletion
grammatical (syntactic) case
carries information about NP's grammatical relation
semantic case
encodes information about thematic roles
nominative
subject
accusative
direct object
scrambling
case provides way to distinguish between subjects and D.O.
no need to rely on word order
'case languages' permit considerable freedom in the ordering of verb's arguments
differential object marking
omit D.O. case marker when it has particular semantic properties
1) higher on animacy => more likely to be case marked
human > animate > inanimate
2) higher on definite scale => more likely to be case marked
personal pronoun > proper name > definite NP > indefinite specifc NP > non-specifc NP
(definite
: referent is familiar to speaker and addressee)
(specific
: speaker has particular referent in mind)
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Syntax Files D1 2nd Test
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Syntax Files D1 2nd Test
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2011-10-13T03:30:11Z
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