Case Flashcards
Case that carries information about a NP’s grammaical relation is sometimes referred to as……
Grammatical(or Syntactic) case
Case that encodes information about thematic roles is called……
Semantic case
Semantic case
Case that encodes information about thematic roles
Grammatical (or Syntactic case)
Case that carries information about an NP’s grammatical relation
Case
refer to a system of marking that provides information abuot an NP’s function within the sentene
usually by indicating its grammatical relation and/or thematic role
What are the case contrast for subject-direct object distinction
- Nominative-Accusative Contrast
- Eergative-Absolutive Constrast
- Active System
- Three-Way Systems
what are the two case forms in Nominative-Accusative Constrast? What will they do paired with?
Nominative: Subject
Accusative: Direct Object
How are case expresed in English? and where do they usually appear on?
by suppletion(a type of inflection)
only on pronouns
Scrambling
as case provides a reliable way to distinguish between subject and direct objects, there is no need to rely on word order to fulfill this cunction.
* for this reason, ‘case languages’ oftern permit considerable freedom in the ordering of a verb’s argument
are there any languages in which there is a one-on-one relationship between the nominative case and the subject relation on the one hand or the accusative case and the direct object on the other?
no
what are the case roles and what do they represent in the Ergative-Absolutive Contrast?
Ergative: Subject of a transitive verb
Absolutive: both the subject of an intransitice verb and the direct object of a transitive verb
Which graph will we use when there is split transitivity?
Active(Agentive) Case Marking
how will the marking systen work in an active case marking?
- Unergative verbs receive same case used for the subjects of transitive verbs (referent is agent-like or agentive)
- Subjects of unaccusative verbs are marked by the case used for the durect object of transitive verbs (referent is theme like)
what is among the three way system occur?
an Ergative case for subjects of transitive verbs
an Accusative for direct object
a Nominatice for subjects of intransitive verbs
