exceptional case-marking

English

Noun

exceptional case-marking (uncountable)

  1. (grammar) A phenomenon where the subject of an embedded infinitival verb seems to appear in the superordinate clause, and, if a pronoun, is unexpectedly marked with objective case morphology.
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