A dependent-marking language has grammatical markers of agreement and case government between the words of phrases that tend to appear more on dependents...

modifiers or dependents. Many languages employ both head-marking and dependent-marking, and some languages double up and are thus double-marking. The concept...

on the modifiers or dependents. Pervasive double-marking is rather rare, but instances of double-marking occur in many languages. For example, in Turkish...

A zero-marking language is one with no grammatical marks on the dependents or the modifiers or the heads or nuclei that show the relationship between...

Kazakh is a nominative-accusative, head-final, left-branching, dependent-marking language. Kazakh has no noun class or gender system. Nouns are declined...

however, do not take these prefixes. Chechen is an ergative, dependent-marking language using eight cases (absolutive, genitive, dative, ergative, allative...

phrases and their constituents by marking the head noun with agreement morphemes. There are some dependent-marking languages that may be considered to be polysynthetic...

word Dependent-marking language Head-marking language Double-marking language Zero-marking language Maddieson, Ian. "Locus of Marking: Whole-Language Typology"...

the subject—it is a strictly dependent-marking language. On the other hand, Basque, Georgian, and some other languages, have polypersonal agreement:...

marking is to head-marking languages what possessive marking is to dependent-marking languages. For example, in English, a dependent-marking language...