case marking

It can be difficult to clearly distinguish case markings from adpositions.

Nouns must receive one of ten possible case markings.

These are the rules of the speaker's language, including word order, gender if appropriate, case markings and other grammatical features.

From a functional point of view, adpositions and morphological case markings are similar.

There are case markings that come at the beginning of words to show what verb type or noun type the word is.

Syntax: simpler, without any mood and case markings.

Adpositions in one language can correspond precisely to case markings in another language.

Case markings combine with a noun morphologically.

Heller was checking case markings.

Despite this functional similarity, adpositions and case markings are distinct grammatical categories:

"Form and Function of Case Marking in Kambaata."

Two adpositions can usually be joined with a conjunction and share a single complement, but this is normally not possible with case markings:

One adposition can usually combine with two coordinated complements, but this is normally not possible with case markings:

Between Agreement and Case Marking in Lamnso.

Case markings combine primarily with nouns, whereas prepositions can combine with phrases of many different categories.

Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian.

"The Pragmatics of Case Marking in Saisiyat."

Middle Persian had become more analytical, having no grammatical gender and few case markings, and Persian has inherited such characteristics.

The noun heads have plurals, locatives, deictics, ergatives, reflexives and other generally word-final case markings.

That means that the subject of an intransitive verb will take the same case markings as the direct object of a transitive verb.

In contrast to German, case markings have become vestigial in English and Dutch; see , , , .

Gilbert C. Rappaport, "A Minimalist Approach to Case Marking in Slavic"

In 1991, the F.B.I. contracted with a Washington area company called Nmemonics Systems Inc. to develop a program based on identifying shell case markings.

Basically, a modifying noun is marked in the genitive case, but also agrees in case, number and gender with the head - essentially, it has two case markings.

In Finnish sentences, however, the role of the noun is determined not by word order or sentence structure as in English but by case markings which indicate subject and object.