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 --
However, in open-class first declension paradigms, a vowel-final nominative singular is identical in form to the partitive (and genitive) singular.
The data from these ten children were pooled and the objective for nominative overextension rates calculated.
The only true error which occurred with any frequency in our data is the use of the nominative instead of the instrumental.
If there is no functional projection checking tense and number features, there will be no specifier position where subjects can raise to receive nominative case.
Thirdly, our approach equates the nominative and accusative forms.
Erroneous use of the nominative forms der, die, das of the definite article did not differ in the group of normally-hearing children.
But these patterns are distinguished essentially by whether their nominative or genitive singular is strong.
The unnecessary complications induced by a phrase structural definition of grammatical functions are avoided by treating the overt nominative argument as a coindexed adjunct.