ON DEVIANT CASE-MARKING IN LATIN^335separo, in fact, the direct coding of the source argument is held to be con
fined to poetic usage. Pinkster further argues (1985:174) that considerations
of animacy limit the use of such direct coding; he notes that while the ab-
phrase can code either animate or inanimate sources, the "pure caseform"
can ordinarily code only inanimate sources. Hence, it appears that preposi
tion-phrase coding represents the default for third arguments representing
sources. Direct coding of non-accusative non-subject arguments is thus
largely limited to the dative, as codified in principle (24c).
The principles in (24a-c) cannot account for those predicates which
require direct core arguments bearing ablative or genitive case. It will be
demonstrated that the case-marking principles given in (24) must be
supplemented by another coding principle, this governing the manner in
which a particular marked linkage is expressed. This principle is given in
(26):
(26) A non-macrorole direct core argument representing a theme out
ranked for undergoer status by a locative, in violation of the A/U
hierarchy, will receive either genitive or, more commonly, abla
tive coding.
Leaving aside (26) for the time being, we might now examine how the
rules given in (24) apply to some of the verbs which were shown in (1) and
(2) to license normal case-marking patterns. All such verbs are governed by
default macrorole-assignment principles: the number of macroroles is less
than or equal to the number of arguments in the LS; a verb having two or
more arguments in its LS will take two macroroles, while a verb having one
argument in its LS will take one macrorole — the identity of that single
macrorole determined by a principle to be given below. Only when the
number of macroroles is not predictable from the number of direct core
arguments, as among those predicates licensing irregular case-patterns, will
macrorole number be specified in a verb's lexical entry. This specification
will take the form of the binary feature [±MR], with [+MR] = 1 and
[—MR]=0. Verbs whose lexical entries are tagged with this feature violate
the default principles of macrorole assignment given above; all others
assign macroroles in accordance with these principles.
The accomplishment verb caedo ("I strike down"), exemplified in (la),
can then be given the following lexical representation (an analogous LS can
be proposed for the accomplishment predicate augeo, "I increase,"
exemplified in (lc)):