It is a question of present day research, why is it that with pronouns in English, Case marking is preserved?
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Siegel argues that the semantic bootstrapping hypothesis can not account for how children acquire case marking in split ergative languages.
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These are the rules of the speaker's language, including word order, gender if appropriate, case markings and other grammatical features.
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Case marking for nouns is ergatively patterned, and generally other elements in the noun phrase must agree with noun's case ."
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However, the anti-ergative case markings can not be reconstructed at higher levels in the family and are thought to be innovations.
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Her most recent major work has dealt with the relationship between case marking, information structure ( topic, focus ) and semantics.
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There is no case marking, but central noun phrases will often be preceded by determiners while non-central NPs will take prepositions.
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Nouns do not have case marking in core grammatical roles, although there are suffixes for Instrumental, Accompaniment / Location and Predicate possessor.
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In looking at the syntax, linguists analyze the use of case marking, which distinguishes between volitional and non-voltional agents of an event.
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If a language relies less on overt case marking, alignment may be coded through word order, as in this example from Indonesian.
