Comparative Concept: nominative category (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
nominative category (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | nominative category |
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Definition
the morphosyntactic category in the accusative alignment system that co-expresses both A and S roles. Example: English verbs use the same index in the Present Tense (3rd Person Singular -s, otherwise zero) for both A and S roles (Emily sing-s, Emily play-s the piano), hence the -s/-Ø index is a nominative index. (Section 6.3.1)