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In syntax, '''case assignment''' is used if [[case]] is assigned to an [[argument]] by a [[head]], in particular a [[verb]] or a [[preposition]], or by [[INFL]] (see [[structural case]]).

===Example===

===Comments===
Such a [[head]] is called a case-assigner. V and P assign case to their [[complement]] positions, in some languages subject to structural conditions, e.g. [[government]] and [[adjacency]]. [[INFL]] on the other hand assigns case to its specifier (the surface subject) under [[specifier-head agreement]]; if [[INFL]] is +Tense, the subject is assigned [[Nominative Case]] (e.g. ''he''), if [[INFL]] is -Tense, it assigns Null Case (the unique property of [[PRO]]).

More recently, all [[structural Case]] assignment is taken to be a matter of spec,head agreement in a different AGRP for each distinct argument (e.g. AGROP, AGRSP). In order to be assigned structural Case arguments move either overtly or covertly to an appropriate spec, AGRP position.

===Link===
[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Case+assignment&lemmacode=855 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]

===References===
*{{: Chomsky 1981}}
*{{: Chomsky 1986b}}
*{{: Chomsky 1993}}
*{{: Chomsky & Lasnik 1993}}

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