This paper examines the unusual case and word order behavior of objects of infinitives in Lithuanian. In addition to lexically determined case idiosyncrasy, Lithuanian exhibits syntactically determined case idiosyncrasy: with infinitives in three distinct constructions, case possibilities other than accusative obtain. These cases (dative, genitive, and nominative) depend on the general clause s...

The paper presents the results of research into use genitive without prepositions in spoken language young people from Vranje. aim this is to determine which case forms, due presence analytism and exposure standard language, are used by youth Vranje express semantics prepositions. speech forty preschool primary school children was analyzed. corpus material for consists transcripts spontaneous c...

The English -ing form, also called (verbal) gerund, is often believed to display a mixture of verbal and nominal properties, thus posing problems for any theory of grammar. I will argue that this is actually not the case for every construction involving the -ing form, but only for two distinct subclasses, -ing forms after genitive subjects and after determiners like no or any. In the other case...

This article discusses the nature of Estonian aspect and case, proposing an analysis of Estonian verbal aspect, aspectual case, and clausal aspect. The focus is on the interaction of transitive telic verbs (write, win) and aspectual case at the level of the functional structure. The main discussion concerns the relationships between aspect and the object case alternation. The data set comprises...

This paper proposes a general analysis of Case alternations and other phenomena associated with nominal hierarchies of the Silverstein type. The analysis is based on the mechanism of defective probes (in the sense of Chomsky 2001), such that a defective head may value a different Case from its nondefective counterpart (cf. Rezac 2004). The resultant 'defective Case forms' are characterized by a...

Abstract In a passage from Apollodorus’ Against Neaera ([Dem.] 59.113), the manuscripts have unanimously transmitted feminine plural genitive of ‘citizen’, πολιτίδων . Since Reiske's 1770 emendation, however, editions text printed considerably more common masculine form, πολιτῶν Emphasizing importance female citizenship in Athens, this note proposes restoring manuscript reading text.

This paper outlines an approach to the stage-by-stage solution of the computer-linguistic problem of the processing of quantitative expressions with measurement units by means of the linguistic processor NooJ. The focus is put on the nominative, genitive, and accusative cases for Belarusian and Russian. The paper gives a general analysis of the problem providing examples not only for Belarusian...