Case government
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case-government-181-16183908
title:
Case government
text:
In linguistics, case government is government of the grammatical case of a noun, wherein a verb or adposition is said to 'govern' the grammatical case of its noun phrase complement, e.g. in German the preposition für 'for' governs the accusative case: für mich 'for me-accusative'. Case government may modify the meaning of the verb substantially, even to meanings that are unrelated. Case government is an important notion in languages with many case distinctions, such as Russian and Finnish. It pl
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Grammatical term
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_government
date created:
2007-03-04T07:59:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T09:27:07Z
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