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Certain verbs e.g. want, believe, consider etc. and one complementizer
for are able to assign case to the subject of their complement clause.
The complementizer for, like the preposition for, has the assign-case
feature of its complement set to
acc. Since the assign-case
feature of
the root Sr of the complement tree and the case
feature of its NP subject are co-indexed, this
leads to the subject being assigned accusative case.
ECM verbs have the assign-case
feature of their
foot S node set to acc. The co-indexation between the assign-case
feature of
the root Sr and the case
feature of the NP subject
leads to the subject being assigned accusative case.
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