Languages with case systems mark sentential arguments using specific case morphology
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That languages with case systems use case morphology to mark arguments is a foundational definition in linguistics, so no citation is needed.
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The claim states a basic linguistic definition: case-marking systems exist precisely to mark the syntactic roles or arguments of nouns within a sentence using specific morphology. This is a definitional truism within linguistics and does not require empirical evidence from the retrieved literature.
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The claim states a basic linguistic definition: case-marking systems exist precisely to mark the syntactic roles or arguments of nouns within a sentence using specific morphology. This is a definitional truism within linguistics and does not require empirical evidence from the retrieved literature.
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