English Explanatory Dictionary

exceptional case-marking

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A phenomenon where the subject of an embedded infinitival verb seems to appear in the superordinate clause, and, if a pronoun, is unexpectedly marked with objective case morphology.

Word forms

exceptional case-marking
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