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Dependent-marking language

A dependent-marking language has grammatical markers of agreement and case government between the words of phrases that tend to appear more on dependents than on heads. The distinction between head-marking and dependent-marking was first explored by Johanna Nichols in 1986, and has since become a central criterion in language typology in which languages…

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dependent-marking noun language head english german languages head-marking zero-marking determiner dependent nichols also agreement phrases double-marking plural form dependency grammar

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