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The term '''flag''' is occasionally used as a cover term for [[case]]s and [[adposition]]s.

===Term properties===
''Flagging'' can be used for 'case/adpositional marking', and the verb ''to flag'' can be used for 'to mark by case/adposition'.

===Comments===
The term ''flag'' is not at all widely known, but the alternatives based on ''case'' have the disadvantage of biasing the terminology toward case, while the alternatives based on ''relation/relator'' have the disadvantage that the underlying concept of relation is extremely broad.

===Synonyms===
* [[relator]] (but this term tends to be used even more broadly, including also coordinators and subordinators)
* [[case marker]] (Kilby 1981, Croft 2003:33)
* ''relational morpheme'' (Croft 2003:33)
* ''case marking element'' (Kilby 1981)
* ''case relator'' (used by Christian Lehmann)
* ''functeme'' (proposed by [[Claude Hagège]] in a [http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0607b&L=lingtyp&D=1&F=&S=&P=2283 July 2006 LINGTYP contribution])

===Origin===
The term had some currency in [[Relational Grammar]] in the 1970s and 1980s. An early attestation is in Johnson & Postal (1980). Recently it has been used in a typological context in Haspelmath (2005).

:::*''"5. Flagging: Tzotzil uses prepositions and so-called 'relational nouns' to mark NPs for their grammatical or thematic relations — to FLAG them, in the terminology of relational grammar."'' (Aissen 1987:11)

===References===
*[[Aissen, Judith L.]] 1987. ''Tzotzil clause structure.'' Dordrecht: Reidel.
*[[Croft, William]]. 2003. ''Typology and universals.'' 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
*[[Martin Haspelmath|Haspelmath, Martin]]. "Argument marking in ditransitive alignment types." ''Linguistic Discovery'' 3.1:1-21. [http://linguistic-discovery.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/xmlpage/1/issue download]
*Johnson, David E. & [[Postal, Paul M.]] 1980. ''Arc Pair Grammar.'' Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
*Kilby, David. 1981. "On case markers." ''Lingua'' 54:101-133.

===Other languages===
*German [[Flagge]]

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 * ''relational morpheme'' (Croft 2003:33)
 * ''case marking element'' (Kilby 1981)
-* ''case relator'' (used by Christian Lehmann)
+* ''case relator'' (used by [[Christian Lehmann]])
 * ''functeme'' (proposed by [[Claude Hagège]] in a [http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0607b&L=lingtyp&D=1&F=&S=&P=2283 July 2006 LINGTYP contribution])

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