Re: Marked nominative

From: nathrao
Message: 21889
Date: 2003-05-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen <jer@...>
wrote:
> Continuing the argument over the nominative marker which apparently is a
> typologically disallowed monstrosity,

I have been trying to follow this thread, but was not able to find
where it started. So I am not sure what ``marked'' means here. Is the
rarity a
marked nominative vs zero something else, or is it simply a non-zero
nominative? If the former, what is the zero something else in masc/fem
case system of PIE?