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(63) What type of marking is there for nominal arguments?

Alternatives to be checked: head-marking / dependent-marking / both / unmarked

a) intransitive

nominal argument

The man walks (up the stairs). (head-marking)

pronominal argument

He walks (up the stairs). (head- and dependent-marking)

Explanation: Dependent marking mostly refers to case marking (e.g., accusative, ergative, dative etc.) and adpositions while head-marking refers to verbal agreement indicating person or number (Nichols).

English has morphological dependent-marking in pronouns (e.g., he vs. him) only and head-marking only in third person.