Quirky subject

As a lexical case is (especially in generative grammar) denotes the opposite of structural case. While the structural case, especially the nominative and accusative of the most occurrences depend on the sentence structure as such, the appearance of a lexical case of properties of individual verbs depends. It is typically so irregularities in the marking of objects to be also taught with individual verbs.

A accusative is to be considered in some special cases as lexical case, namely when it is used to mark the single complement of a verb; this is then a " lexical " property of individual verbs (so-called impersonal verbs), which thus deviate from the rule that the only addition of a verb is in the nominative case, eg:

Examples of objects with lexical case from the NHG are:

Examples from Latin:

• Lexical accusative with genitive object:

• ablative case as the object:

Lexical case may naturally occur only in morphology -rich languages ​​that distinguish several case forms of a noun, eg Ancient Greek, Icelandic, Hindi and most of the Slavic languages. Moreover, the phenomenon can be seen but to the phenomenon of Präpositionalobjekte where a verb instead of a specific case requires a particular preposition to its complement as related.

A special case of lexical case is the phenomenon of "quirky case", in which additions to typical Objektskasus as dative properties that subjects accept (this phenomenon does not exist in German ).