
Case markers often distinguish between the various arguments of a predicate, such as the Agent and Patient (Comrie 2008). 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 <b>Pronouns</b> (regardless of whether this holds for full NPs as well), that subjects and objects of transitive sentences and subjects of intransitive sentences are formally identical.<br><br>

An example comes from Jamaican Creole (Durrleman 2000), where there is only one form for each pronoun, regardless of its status in the clause, as exemplified by the sentences <i><b>Wi</b> nuh like <b>dem</b> an' <b>dem</b> nuh like <b>wi</b></i> '<b>1pl</b> NEG like <b>3pl</b> and <b>3pl</b> NEG like <b>1pl</b>' for 'They don't like us and we don't like them.'<br><br>

<b>Note:</b> Languages which are marked 'yes' for this property should be marked <b>N/A</b> for other Pronoun case marking properties. <br><br>

<b>Reference</b><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>. <br>
Durrleman, Stephanie. 2000. The architecture of the clause in Jamaican Creole.<i> Generative Grammar in Geneva </i> 1:189-240.
