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case marking
This term is a technical linguistic descriptor used primarily in academic and descriptive grammar. It refers to the morphological strategy a language uses to signal the role of a noun phrase, such as identifying who is performing an action versus who is receiving it. This distinguishes it from languages like English, which rely predominantly on word order (syntax) to convey these relationships.
Because it describes a systemic grammatical process, the term is typically treated as an uncountable noun in linguistic discourse. One does not usually refer to "a case marking" or "multiple case markings" when discussing the general phenomenon, but rather refers to the "system of case marking" or the "presence of case marking" within a specific language family.
Meanings
Examples
The professor explained how case marking allows for flexible word order in Latin.
Does this language use case marking to distinguish the subject from the object?
I wonder if the lack of case marking in English makes it harder to learn for some.
Case marking is essential for understanding the roles of nouns in agglutinative languages.
Case marking is essential for understanding the roles of nouns in agglutinative languages.
The ancient text exhibits a complex system of case marking that is no longer used today.
We need to analyze the case marking on these nouns to determine who did what.
Some languages rely on word order rather than case marking to convey meaning.
The student struggled to memorize the different forms of case marking in German.
Ergative case marking identifies the subject of an intransitive verb differently than a transitive one.
Ergative case marking identifies the subject of an intransitive verb differently than a transitive one.