0 (being) a particular form of a noun in some languages that shows the noun is the subject of a verb
1 having or relating to the case (= form) of a noun, pronoun, or adjective used to show that a word is the subject of a verb
Normally -ga is the nominative case marker and -wa is a topic marker.
This was explored for errors of gender in the nominative and for errors of case and gender in the oblique cases, per type of article.
In keeping with the fundamentally conservative nature of prescriptivism, its advocates see the use of the nominative in this domain as a loathsome innovation.
Most significant is the fact that, as with the dative and genitive constructions, these nominative objects appear (discourse-neutrally) only in preverbal position.
It is interesting to consider the relationship of nominative case overextensions to the overall patterns of objective for nominative overextensions exhibited by these children.
For instance frequency of use of die collapses die used as nominative and accusative singular and plural.
The relevance of this categorical statement is restricted to main clauses with one finite transitive lexical verb with a nominative subject.
The unnecessary complications induced by a phrase structural definition of grammatical functions are avoided by treating the overt nominative argument as a coindexed adjunct.
