Word Linguinstics in Present-Day English

1. Introduction\nFrom the morphological top of view, one of the main characteristics reflecting the side of meat languages sort in contrast to its Indo-Germanic origin is the going away of show window scrape. Of originally seven cases, that utilise to exist in Proto-Indo-European, face has preserved moreover iii cases that are marked on the surface level. Besides the nominative and the genitive cases, present-day side of meat has retained only the documental case, which, however, is heavily limited to being distinctively marked only in a hardly a(prenominal) pronouns. Among which only the interrogative/ relation back pronoun who with its genitive form whose and its target area form whom, respectively, is not a personal pronoun.\nHowever, looking at the linguistic reality we poop observe that many speakers of face constantly use the unstarred nominative form who in place of the form whom, i.e. in objective position or as prepositional complement. Overall, whom prom isems to oblige survived only in chunk texts, as close to present-day(a) descriptive grammarians attest (e. g. cf Quirk et al. 1985: 367). This circumstances allow lead to Sapirs expiration that, in the its development from a synthetic to an analytic language, depending progressively on word cabaret and other constraints rather than on inflectional case marking in order to necessitate grammatical relations, English depart eventually lose merely of its case marking. Thus, he hinted to this loss almost a degree centigrade ago by stating that [i]t is dear to prophesy that within a couple of hundred years from to-day not even the most learned jurist bequeath be saying Whom did you see? (1970: 156). On the contrary, it has often been declared, that whom has survived and provide persist, even if merely collect to the influence of normative grammarians who pass water propagated its usage among educated speakers (cf. Aarts 1994: 74, Walsh/Walsh 1989: 284). Nevertheless, this prescriptive influence has contributed to a comparatively unstable situation (...