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Hello AnonAre you testing our knowledge about linguistic terms? "Ergative" is originally the term used to refer to the case of the subject in the transitive sentences of ergative-absolutive languages like Georgian and Basque. In those languages, the nouns are marked by an "ergative-case marker"...

Another kind of illegitimate argument is based on analogy between one area of grammar and another. consider yet another construction where there is variation between nominative and accusative forms of pronouns: , where the subject has the form of a coordination of pronouns. This shows us not...

HelloCharles-James N Bailey, Professor Emeritus of Berlin Technical University, argues online ('How Grammars of English Have Missed the Boat') his historic view on English grammar. According to him, basic words used in current English were mostly those borrowed from the underclass's language...

Casi Thank you again as usual. As to explaining the difference between the constructs of SVOO and SVO to O, the Chomskian theory is someway persuasive (I have learned the theory through the online resources given by Professor Beatrice Santorini at Pennsylvania University). But I don't think...

Hello Casi Thank you again for your detailed explanation. But I am sorry I have to say that I cannot still get what you mean by the word 'incorporation'. First I thought your 'incorporation' meant something like 'housing', that is, the IO functions as a house of the DO in the SVOO sentences....