4. The problem of the category of case and various
approaches to its study.
The case is the morphological category of the noun
manifested in the forms of noun declension and showing the
relations of the nounal referent to other objects and phenomena.
The category of case in English constitutes a linguistic
problem. Linguists argue, first, whether the category of case really
exists in modern English, and, second, if it does exist, how many
case forms of the noun can be distinguished in English. The main
disagreements concern the grammatical status of ―noun + an
apostrophe + –s‖ form (Ted‟s book, the chairman‟s decision).
The following four approaches of different scholars, can be
distinguished in the analysis of this problem.
The approach which can be defined as “the theory of
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