GET OFF MY CASE
Marked by -o in Japanese, this case is associated with direct objects.
What is the accusative case?
What does he want to do?
What is wh-movement? (What is wh-fronting? or What is open interrogativization? is also okay.)
This is the basic constituent order of Irish.
What is VSO?
This is the scientific study of sounds and signs. Dr. Morton will be teaching a class on this field next semester.
What is phonology? (LING 404.)
What is Germanic?
The English 's is not exactly a case marker, but a clitic, but if it did mark a case, it would be this one.
What is the genitive case?
Dogs, I love them.
What is topicalization?
German CPs/DPs/PPs are head-initial, whereas its TPs/VPs are head-final, making it this type of language.
What is mixed-directional?
This is the scientific study of word-internal form-meaning correspondence. You can take a class on it with me next semester.
What is morphology? (LING 410.)
French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, ...
What is Romance? (What is Italic? is also acceptable.)
In Vafsi Tati, this is the case of both the subject and the object in a canonical transitive clause.
What is the oblique case?
To whom do you wish to speak?
What is pied-piping?
German V2 can do this whereas Icelandic V2 cannot. (Japanese can also do this.)
What is topicalize the verb? (What is verb fronting? or What is move the verb to Spec,CP? is also acceptable.)
This is a non-generative approach to syntax that Dr. Pahis told you about. You can take a class on it with Dr. Cacoullos next semester.
What is functionalism/functional syntax? (SPAN 509.)
Niuean, Hawaiian, Māori, Tongan, ...
What is Polynesian? (What is Austronesian? is also acceptable.)
In a tripartite language, this is the traditionally the name given to the case associated with the transitive subject.
What is the ergative case?
Will you be coming?
What is subject-auxiliary inversion (or T-to-C raising)?
Daily Double
This lexical item occupies the left edge in Irish and the right edge in Japanese and does not exist at all in English.
This subfield studies language change in space and time. I will be teaching a course on it in the spring.
What is historical linguistics? (LING 405.)
Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, ...
What is Celtic?
What is marked nominativity (or zero accusativity)?
Daily Double
Here lies Walt Whitman.
These are the three rare word orders for which we cannot draw trees in our system yet.
What are OVS, OSV, and VSO?
This applied linguistics course applies both functional and formal perspectives to second language pedagogy.
What is APLNG 484 - Discourse-Functional Grammar?
American Sign Language, French Sign Language, Czech Sign Language, Russian Sign Language...
What is Francosign? (What is the French Sign Language family? is also acceptable.)