Sentence examples for nominative position from inspiring English sources

The first English grammarians never had to hear an inarticulate Roman teenager butcher his cases; they had only the works of great writers to judge by).As it happens, the rule "use the nominative case in the predicate nominative position" (It is I) is not just Greco-Latin.

A granny facing a police line-up, jangled by her recent mugging, will point to the perpetrator and naturally shout, "That's him, officer!" And as Geoffrey Pullum, a syntactician at the University of Edinburgh, points out, there are many cases where the nominative pronoun I, he, she, we, they in predicate position is so weird as to be unacceptable.

Nominative: A candidate for political office.

The nominal and pronominal declension had seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, instrumental, and locative.

Sometimes two otherwise identical words are differentiated by the nature or the position of the accent: for example, oîkoi ('houses') is a nominative plural form and oíkoi ('at home') an adverb of place; tómos means 'a cut' and tomós 'cutting.' The accent (which is not associated with stress) does not play any part in the rhythm of the language.

Accusative languages like English usually have a nominative case feature and an EPP feature on T. The EPP feature triggers the subject to move to the specifier position of the TP.

Appearance: The living embodiment of nominative determinism.

Such nominative determinism is hardly conclusive.

And why limit it to nominative, vocative and accusative plurals?

I is only in the nominative case, me in the objective; we is nominative, us objective; he nominative, him objective, and so on.

I can't remember what nominative determinism is.