positional cases” was
developed
by
J. C. Nesfield,
M. Deutchbein, M. Bryant and other linguists, mainly in
English- speaking countries [19]. They follow the patterns of
classical Latin grammar, distinguishing nominative, genitive,
dative, accusative and vocative cases in English. The cases are
differentiated by the functional position of the noun in the
sentence, e.g.: the nominative case corresponds with the subject,
the accusative case with the direct object, the dative case with
indirect object, and the vocative case with the address. Thus,
―the theory of positional cases‖ presents an obvious confusion of
the formal, morphological characteristics of the noun and its
functional, syntactic features.
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The approach which can be defined as “the theory of