| 11. | This preposition functions like accusative case.
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| 12. | In German, for example, accusative case is always overt on arguments with masculine gender.
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| 13. | In a verbal sentence, the subject takes nominative case and the object takes accusative case.
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| 14. | Nominative means it is the subject of the sentence; accusative case is used for the direct object.
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| 15. | In particular, the accusative case is assigned through a structural relation between the verbal head and its complement.
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| 16. | For example, support accounting for accusative case in Latin-type case marked languages could be presented as:
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| 17. | The existence or nonexistence of an accusative case in Finnish thus depends on one's point of view.
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| 18. | Pronouns are identical in all cases, though exceptionally the accusative case may be marked, as for nouns.
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| 19. | The phenomenon of ECM makes it evident that accusative case is not necessarily assigned to the complement of the assigner.
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| 20. | So an'accusative verb'is one which would have an object in the accusative case if used transitively.
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