Exceptional Case Marking
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In Chomskyan syntax, Exceptional Case Marking refers to a biclausal construction in which the subject of the embedded clause receives the Case marking from the matrix clause.
Example
English Masha believes [Jorge to be innocent]. Here the embedded-clause subject Jorge is analyzed as Case-marked by the matrix verb believes.
Synonyms
There are a number of terms for the same construction, but they tend to imply a different analysis:
Origin
The term was introduced by Chomsky 1981.
References
- Chomsky, Noam. 1981. Lectures in Government and Binding. Dordrecht: Foris.
