Chen Shuyi: Created page with "A noun or pronoun expression is assigned case by the closest case-assigner which c-commands it (in consequence of the Earliness Principle) and is assigned
(i) accusative..."

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A noun or pronoun expression is assigned case by the closest case-assigner which c-commands it (in consequence of the Earliness Principle) and is assigned 

(i) accusative case if c-commanded by a transitive head (e.g a transitive verb like meet, or a transitive preposition like with or a transitive complementiser like for or for) 

(ii) nominative case if c-commanded by an intransitive ﬁnite complementiser (like that, that, if or the null declarative main-clause complementiser ø ) 

(iii) null case if c-commanded by a null intransitive non-ﬁnite complementiser ø

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Chen Shuyi: Created page with "A noun or pronoun expression is assigned case by the closest case-assigner which c-commands it (in consequence of the Earliness Principle) and is assigned (i) accusative..."

Chen Shuyi: Created page with "A noun or pronoun expression is assigned case by the closest case-assigner which c-commands it (in consequence of the Earliness Principle) and is assigned
(i) accusative..."