miniatureconlangs: Tiny Unnumbered Detail:Case Spreading

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Tiny Unnumbered Detail:Case Spreading

In a language with case, in phrases such as 'man against man' or 'man against nature' or 'day by day', have case spread to the left, so that both nouns always are marked by the same case whenever the NP is not clearly part of a VP.

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