The dependent-sign language has a grammar marker of agreement and government cases between phrase words that tend to appear more on dependents than on the head. The distinction between head marking and hanging-up was first explored by Johanna Nichols in 1986, and has since become a central criterion in the language typology in which languages ââare classified according to whether they are more marked heads or hanging-marks. Many languages ââuse both heads and hanging-marks, but some use double marks, but others use zero-marking. However, it is not clear that the head of the clause has anything to do with the noun phrase head, or even what the head of the clause.
Video Dependent-marking language
In English
English has few markers of inflected approval, so it can be interpreted as zero-marking most of the time. Dependent-marking, however, occurs when singular or plural nouns demand a singular or plural form of this demonstrative determinant/this or that/people and when a verb or preposition demands subject or object in the person's pronoun form: me/me , him/her , him/her , them/them , who/who . The following grammatical dependency representation illustrates several cases:
Compound words in English require the plural of the dependent demonstrative demoniner, and the preposition requires the object form of a dependent personal pronoun.
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In German
Examples of dependent tagging are relatively rare occurrences in English, but the dependent sign occurs more frequently in related languages, such as German. There, for example, dependent-signs exist in most noun nouns. A noun marker determiner depends:
The noun signifies the determiner depending on the gender (masculine, feminine, or neutral) and the number (singular or plural). In other words, the gender and number of nouns determine the determinant shape that must arise. German nouns also mark adjectives depending on gender and numbers, but marks vary across determinators and adjectives. Also, the head noun in German can mark a dependent noun with a genitive case.
See also
References
Source
- ÃÆ' gel, V., L. Eichinger, H.-W. Eroms, P. Hellwig, H. Heringer, and H. Lobin (eds.) 2003/6. Dependency and valence: International handbook of contemporary research. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
- Nichols, J. 1986. Head markings and grammars that depend on the sign. Language 62, 1, 56-119.
- Nichols, J. 1992. The variety of languages ââin space and time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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