Kasuslage
Kasuslage is a term used in linguistics to describe the relationship between grammatical case marking and the syntactic placement of noun phrases within a clause. It concerns how case morphology (such as nominative, accusative, dative, genitive) and the position of noun phrases work together to indicate grammatical functions like subject, direct object, or indirect object in languages with inflected case systems.
The term derives from German, with Kasus meaning case and Lage meaning position or situation. It is
In practice, Kasuslage helps explain why certain word orders are possible or preferred given the presence of
Example: in a language with nominative and accusative marking, a sentence can be understood correctly whether