English is a canonical nominative-accusative language where subjects of intransitive and transitive verbs receive the same marking and differ from objects, making this structural alignment a matter of basic linguistic description.
The claim that English has an accusative alignment in verbal person marking (or morphosyntax more broadly) is a foundational, descriptive fact of English grammar well known in linguistics. None of the retrieved papers specifically evaluate or dispute English verbal alignment, rendering citations unnecessary for this basic observation.