Hello Everyone! I am so glad you (all) answered. I thought silly questions like these will be ignored. So, yes, I could tell about the Hungarian government a couple of things, but better not! Chomsky could do that. I must say, up till now I

Hi, I'm really enjoying this. You're making me think. I'm going to take your points out of sequence. I think I'm still replying to your post; if I misrepresent what you're saying, please correct me. First, the summary of what

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language. For indicating a location the

Than ought to be used as either a demonstrative pronoun or a conjunction. In the sentence 'Jessica is prettier than me', it is being used as a conjunction. This conjunction usually occurs after a comparative adjective or adverb. In this case, it

Milky wrote: <I would be interested to see quotations from the early English grammarians that presented spoken English as somehow inferior, or that demonstrated an imposition of inappropriate rules from Latin. > Do you doubt that was

was spoken 1000 years ago) was "nama". In the accusative, it was "naman". So, English use to change

M. Caliban, The nominative and the accusative cases are the cases of the noun that is checked by the verb. Nominative case means that the noun is in the nominal form (can occupy the position of a subject). Accusative case is the objective case.

Although I'm a native English speaker, I've often struggled to understand English grammar, especially its morphosyntatical elements. I've done some reading on nominative-accusative as well as ergative-absolutive cases and I just don't get it.

.... -0- ok, let's put it this way: GB is nothing more than a module in the generative grammar, to be put on a par with such other modules of the theory as X', Case theory or the Theta Theory, although it has been quite incorrectly treated as

Instead of saying that these be the 'underlying direct object', or making the distinction between D / S structure, or an 'unaccusative verb' (presumably defined as a Verb that cannot take an Object, which is, par excellence, of accusative case ),