Linguistics & Language · Morphology & Syntax
A topic within Morphology & Syntax, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
2 works
Johanna Nichols & Balthasar Bickel
Maps whether a language marks the grammatical relation between a verb and its arguments on the verb itself, on the dependent noun phrase, on both, or on neither, and shows this locus-of-marking choice is areally clustered rather than randomly distributed.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Judith Aissen
Argues that whether a language marks a direct object with case depends on how prominent that object is in animacy and definiteness, and models the pattern as competing economy and iconicity constraints ranked against each other.
link checked 17 Sept 2026