Politics can be an unedifying spectacle at times, and the row that erupted yesterday - with the cancer patients of Wales cast in the unfortunate role of political football - was an
object case.
For a dielectric
object case, the smaller size of the object to be hidden, the better cover-up effect of our cloak.
if an independent first person pronoun is used, that pronoun will be in the
object case, as in (8).
Bo Wickman who has thoroughly treated an object form in all Uralic languages has not found a connection between an
object case form and definitiveness/indefinitiveness in Samoyedic languages (Wickman 1955 74-144).
Standard Bollywood treatment would turn Venkatesh's life-altering choice into an opportunity for third-act melodrama, but "The Pool" is an
object case in the difference between story and plot machinations, emotional truth and bathos.
Either the theme or the recipient argument can be found in the accusative case, which is the direct
object case in Croatian (5).
If we split *Obj/Person into the constraint family *Obj/3, *Obj/2 and *Obj/1 and allow for these to be conjoined with the constraint family pertaining to subject case and
object case we derive constraints much like Trommer's (as we would get constraints like "do not have a caseless 2nd person subject if there is a 3d person object", "do not have a caseless 1st person object if there is a second person subject", and so on), and these can all be ranked differently with respect to the "no structure constraint", as required by the Dumi data.
"Flexibility," as I use the term, refers to a system's capacity to modify a set of axioms--to use the jargon of formalism--in light of the facts of the
object case, or, the case to which such axioms are to apply.
(1)
Object case following 'it is (me).' Though the subject case is required by logic, the position at the end of the sentence suggests
object case.
The
object case plural of the first person is also interesting with regard to the vowel, as the weak, unstressed form developed into present-day English -- in contrast to the
object case singular and subject case plural (me and we) where the strong forms prevailed.