[tied] Re: Marked nominative

To a certain extend, the object is marked in Italian.

If you chose to begin a sentence with an object, then the object is
marked by referencing it with an enclitic personal pronoun attached
to the werb.

Vedo la macchina. La macchina la vedo. = I see the car.




--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> At 12:13:14 PM on Thursday, May 15, 2003, Glen Gordon wrote:
>
> > But what of Italian, Portuguese and the like?
>
> Since they've lost all case marking, it doesn't seem to me
> that it really makes any sense to describe any particular
> case as unmarked.
>
> Brian