Nominative Case ( Concept )
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|_ Linguistic Property
|_ Morphosyntactic Property
|_ Case Property
|_ Nominative Case
Definition:
NominativeCase identifies clause subjects in nominative-accusative languages. It is usually the unmarked case. Nouns used in isolation often have this case [Crystal 1980, 242; Pei and Gaynor 1954, 147; Hartmann and Stork 1972, 224].
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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.
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| Hasan bought the ox. |
References:
Blake (2001:87, 119) FROM Comrie (1989:132-6, 175-6)
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| a new taxi |
Language Code:
wyb
Commisive encodes that the speaker promises or threatens to perform some action (Palmer 2001: 10, 72).
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| You shall none of you go to the cemetery |
References:
Palmer (2001:36)
Language Code:
gle
The necessitative passive is a passive in Irish Gaelic in which the preposition 'with' is used, and a semantic meaning of necessity is added.
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| She had/was to buy mushrooms. |
References:
Noonan (1994:280)
Language Code:
tur
In Turkish, the nominative is zero-marked. Also, in this language nonspecific objects do not take the accusative case.
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| 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.
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| The director showed the letter to Hasan |
References:
Blake (2001:87, 119) FROM Comrie (1989:132-6, 175-6)
Language Code:
wyb
Palmer refers the indirect evidential as the 'reported' or 'linguistic evidential'
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| You are said to have been sick |
References:
Palmer (2001:36) FROM Donaldson (1980)
Language Code:
wyb
Palmer refers to the Direct Evidential as Sensory Evidential.
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| One can see you were sick |
References:
Palmer (2001:36) FROM Donaldson (1980)
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