Quirky subject
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quirky-subject-209-2198584
title:
Quirky subject
text:
In linguistics, quirky subjects are a phenomenon where certain verbs specify that their subjects are to be in a case other than the nominative. These non-nominative subjects are determiner phrases that pass subjecthood tests such as subject-oriented anaphora binding, PRO control, reduced relative clause, conjunction reduction, subject-to-subject raising, and subject-to-object raising. It has been observed cross-linguistically that the subject of a sentence often has a nominative case. However, t
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Linguistic phenomenon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirky_subject
date created:
2007-02-28T20:55:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T15:27:17Z
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