 

Case markers often distinguish between the various arguments of a predicate, such as the Agent and Patient. Three basic types of arguments are generally distinguished: the subject of a transitive clause, the object of a transitive clause, and the subject of an intransitive clause. <br><br>

A 'yes' value indicates that the language has no such case marking on full NPs (though it may on pronouns), that subjects and objects of transitive sentences and subjects of intransitive sentences are formally identical. Standard English is an example. In the sentences, <i><b>the car</b> fell, <b>the car</b> hit me, </i>and<i> I hit <b>the car</b></i>, the full NP <b><i>the car</b></i> has the same form. See Comrie (2008) for more information. <br><br>

<b>Note:</b> Languages which are marked 'yes' for this property should be marked <b>N/A</b> for other Full NP case marking properties. 
<br><br><b>Reference</b><br><br>Comrie, Bernard. 2008. Alignment of Case Marking. In Haspelmath et al. (2008), chapters 98-99. Available online at <a href=â€http://wals.info/feature/98â€>http://wals.info/feature/98</a href>. 
