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How to pronounce accusative in English?

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in this video we're going to introduce
case theory and just a reminder I think
I introduced this in like the second or
third video I made in the series
subjects receive nominative case and
objects receive accusative case so
nominative is the marker of a subject
and accusative is the marker of an
object and we abbreviate them n om and
ACC in all caps I also introduced sup
neg in the beginning which may have
helped you remember subject nominative
object accusative and possessive is the
genitive but we won't really take a look
at the possessive okay so what are some
examples of nominative subjects
well pronouns like I you he she they
compare that to objects which get
accusative case like me you him her them
but we can see that just regular nouns
they don't make a difference between
whether they're nominative or accusative
they appear the same to us it's only our
pronouns that change so we can say I as
a subject love me as an object but we
can't say something like me love I
because our nominative and accusative
are mixed up okay so let's motivate
movement a little bit more let's
motivate it with case so here we have
that nominative case is assigned by T so
what do I mean here well T has known as
a case and it wants to give case to
what's ever in the specifier of T P so
it wants to give known in the case to
the thing in DP so we have our word I so
this is I eat and it's sitting in the
spec V P DP position so this is an agent
it has agent theta role right now but it
doesn't have case yet so all this is at
this moment is a first person singular
pronoun it needs case so what does it do
to get case well it moves up
to spec TP and now this becomes I so I
is now up in spec TP and now it can get
case so now it goes it takes a look at
this I inspect EP and it assigns it
nominative case so this is how it
becomes I and not me so we can't get
meat because me is accusative case but
it's getting nominative case from t so
this is our first thing that's another
motivation for why we have to have
movement from spec VP to spec TP with
our subjects it has to get the theta
role from the verb and it gets case from
the head of T so how do we get
accusative case
well accusative case is a sign from the
verb and the sister of V gets accusative
case let's just quickly look at what's
happened so far we have the sentence he
loves her so he starts out as a
specifier of VP to get a theta role from
loves and then in order to get
nominative case it moves up to spec T P
where T gives it dominative case so now
this he has mounted a case from T but
what about her so her is the object and
her is actually pretty straightforward
accusative case is on V and it just
assigns accusative case to these sister
so now her has accusative case and we
can say that this case is now licensed
by V we can say nominative case is
licensed by T and accusative case is
licensed by V so here's nominative and
accusative case there's also prep case
and this is assigned in DP complements
or in signed to it's DP complements by P
so for instance some verbs are die
transitive and we haven't looked at i
transitive structure yet but essentially
we could say gave a pencil to John
so we said all DPS need case so John has
to get some kids and John gets this
prepositional case from P that just
checks it and this would appear like it
has accusative case so John gave a
pencil to me but it just appears as prep
prep case prepositional case okay what
else is going on here well accusative
case is on the verb so it assigns
accusative to the sister of V and I
guess it could be said well does it
assign accusative case to the pp as well
but our PPS don't get case only our DPS
are the things getting case only our
determiner phrases our noun phrases are
getting case so accusative case from the
verb to the DP pencil the direct object
and then our indirect object the DP
inside is getting case from the
prepositional head to so this brings us
to the case filter hypothesis and the
question is well we have theta rules
that are now on our trees which weren't
before we have a case that was in her
trees that is no longer before so
there's lots of different ways for trees
to fail and ungrammatical trees to not
succeed in the derivation and there's
too many components first thing all DPS
must get case so every DP in our tree
must get case so it must have known a
case accused of case prepositional case
or if it's an adjunct it would get case
somehow from one of his adjuncts to if a
DP does not get case then there is a
crash so consider the sentence below I
ate the potatoes the carrots well I is
getting nominative case from T the
potatoes gets accusative case from the
verb and then we have the carrots here
and there's nothing to give a case so
this sentence is not grammatical and we
have a pretty decent explanation of why
the first thing is ate only has 2 theta
rules
so this is the agent and here we have a
theme the potatoes so the carrots
doesn't get a thinner roll but it also
doesn't get case so it can crash because
of either reason so that we can ask our
question why is I killed a ungrammatical
well let's take a look at this so T has
a nominative case and it gives it two
spec TP it checks it and make sure it's
the same so I is nominative that's okay
I kill they well here we have this third
plural they but kill has accusative case
so when killed gives and checks its case
to the DP complement then it says wait
this is gonna be accusative here which
means that this third person plural must
be them now I killed a is ungrammatical
because if we wanted this hypothetically
so if we want this to be they then it
needs to get nominative case because
they is nominative but it can't get
nominative case there's no way you can
get nominative case down there
therefore I killed a is ungrammatical so
hopefully this was a very brief
introduction to case theory but for an
intermediate syntax course this is
pretty much how you would apply it and
what you need so if you have any
questions please leave in the comments
below and I'll answer them the best that
I can

in this video we're going to introduce

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accusative::adjective | Spocien Dictionary

accusative

adjective

/ə'kjuzətɪv/

serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes

Type	Words
Synonyms	objective

accusative endings.

accusative::adjective | Spocien Dictionary

accusative

adjective

/ə'kjuzətɪv/

containing or expressing accusation

Type	Words
Synonyms	accusatory, accusing, accusive
Derivation	accuse

an accusative forefinger.

accusative::noun | Spocien Dictionary

accusative

noun

/ə'kjuzətɪv/

the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb

Type	Words
Synonyms	accusative case, objective case
Type of	oblique, oblique case

Examples of accusative

accusative

These prepositions can take either the accusative or dative grammatical cases.

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The accusative absolute is a grammatical construction found in some languages.

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The language has an AOV constituent order and nominative-accusative alignment.

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The masculine and neuter forms differ only in the nominative and accusative cases.

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In older forms of German, one of these accusative objects was a dative object.

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There are also reflexive pronouns for the dative case and the accusative case.

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Prepositions take the accusative, dative, or genitive depending on the preposition.

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There are also a few languages which employ only nominative-accusative case marking.

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They decline in five cases, nominative, accusative, genitive, allative and ablative.

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The case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
Containing or expressing accusation; "an accusitive forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare"
Objective: serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings"
The accusative case; Producing accusations; accusatory; accusatorial; a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame; Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited ...
Skrz(e) (through), pro (for), na (to/for).
Marking the direct object (John hit Bill)
The grammatical case which expresses the destination of the action signified by a verb.
OE case form of direct objects.
H9 ai0tiatikh/, -h=j

How to pronounce accusative in English?

accusative::adjective | Spocien Dictionary

abandonment

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abandonment

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accusative::noun | Spocien Dictionary

abandonment

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