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Marka Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Linguistic help

Hello everyone,

I'm a 30 year old naive woman who got interested in linguistics and has an exam next week.

I have just found this page and read a conversation about the object of preposition, direct and indirect objects of a sentence... I really liked your explanations, even I could understand them. : )

  • But! Can we actually seperate the use of prepositions from cases of government?
My other question concerns a totaly different field. (I actually need the answer for my exam.)

  • Can pidgin languages be considered to be transfer phenomena?
thank you in advance
  

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marka But! Can we actually seperate the use of prepositions from cases of government? Are we talking about "cases" like "objective" and "subjective" and "accusative"?

— Avangi

  • marka But!
  • Can we actually seperate the use of prepositions from cases of government?
  • Are we talking about "cases" like "objective" and "subjective" and "accusative"?
  • ) Best regards, - A.
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marka But! Can we actually seperate the use of prepositions from cases of government?
Are we talking about "cases" like "objective" and "subjective" and "accusative"? (The government sticks its nose everywhere these days.)

Best regards, - A.
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AvangiThe government sticks its nose everywhere these days.
I think the poster is talking about a different sort of "government". Google things like "linguistics", "government and binding theory", and "case assignment".
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I live in an island community where local pidgin is actually an accepted language and even taught in school! Emotion: nodding

K
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Hello Everyone!

I am so glad you (all) answered. I thought silly questions like these will be ignored.

So, yes, I could tell about the Hungarian government a couple of things, but better not! Chomsky could do that.

I must say, up till now
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Hi reefannie,

Ha sit actually got a written form as well?
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markaI never thought of examples where the preposition governs the case.
All prepositions in English govern the objective case. But case marking only occurs with a few pronouns in English, so we can't exactly multiply the examples by the thousands, of course.

of him (not of he), for her (not for she), with us (not for w
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CJ,

The penny dropped! Thanks again for the help.

marka
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