Accusative Case ( Concept )
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Thing
      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Property
                  |_ Morphosyntactic Property
                        |_ Case Property
                              |_ Accusative Case

Definition:

AccusativeCase in nominative-accusative languages marks certain syntactic functions, usually direct objects [Hartmann and Stork 1972, 3,156; Crystal 1980, 11,246; Andrews 1985, 75; Anderson 1985, 181].



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Language Code: tur In Turkish, the nominative is zero-marked. Also, in this language nonspecific objects do not take the accusative case.
2009-06-04 13:28:06
Hasanöküz-üaldi
Hasan-NOMox-ACCbuy-PST.3.SG
Hasan bought the ox.

References:
Blake (2001:87, 119) FROM Comrie (1989:132-6, 175-6)

Language Code: tur In Turkish, the nominative is zero-marked. Also, in this language nonspecific objects do not take the accusative case.
2009-06-04 13:28:06
Hasanöküz-üaldi
Hasan.NOMox-ACCbuy-PST.3.SG
Hasan bought the ox

References:
Blake (2001:87, 119) FROM Comrie (1989:132-6, 175-6)

Language Code: tur Informational verbs often have subjects which are agents, and nominal objects that are dative; the subject communicates knowledge to the object.
2009-06-04 13:28:06
MüdürHasan-amektu-ugöster-di
director.NOMHasan-DATletter-ACCshow-PST
The director showed the letter to Hasan

References:
Blake (2001:87, 119) FROM Comrie (1989:132-6, 175-6)

Language Code: lmw Lake Miwok has ten case enclitics.
2009-06-04 13:28:06
káac=uʔute
fish=ACChe.saw
He saw the fish.

References:
Mithun (1999:204) FROM Callaghan (1963: 96-98)

Language Code: tur Informational verbs often have subjects which are agents, and nominal objects that are dative; the subject communicates knowledge to the object.
2009-06-04 13:28:06
MüdürHasan-amektu-ugöster-di
director-NOMHasan-DATletter-ACCshow-PST
The director showed the letter to Hasan

References:
Blake (2001:87, 119) FROM Comrie (1989:132-6, 175-6)


PropertiesValuesDefinition
abbreviation Thing     The abbreviated form representing a scientific term, e.g., ACC, 2, CL.
argument Clause     The syntactic entity about which something is predicated.
feature Linguistic Property     The relation between a linguistic unit and a linguistic feature. A feature inheres in its host. NOTE: this relation is distinct from the hasFeature which pertains to data structures.
has Example Thing    
has Page Information Thing    
predicate Clause     The predicate is the relation between the Clause and a portion of a clause, excluding the subject, that expresses something about the subject [Crystal 1980, 280; Hartmann and Stork 1972, 182; Pei and Gaynor 1954, 173; Pike and Pike 1982, 40; Crystal 1985, 241-242].

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