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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Теория языка. Семиотика. Семантика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2299</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2411-1236</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">26760</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2299-2021-12-2-514-525</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>FUNCTIONAL SEMANTICS AND GRAMMAR. MISCELLANEA</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ СЕМАНТИКА И ГРАММАТИКА. MISCELLANEA</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">A Study of Grammatical Case Forms and their Directionality in Fulfulde: The Transformational Generative Approach</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Трансформативный генеративный подход в исследовании грамматических падежных форм и их направленности в языке фула</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Bello</surname><given-names>Idris Muhammad</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Белло</surname><given-names>Идрис Мухаммад</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>lecturer and Level Coordinator in the department of Languages and Linguistics, and Assistant Faculty Representative in Senate Committee on course system</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>PhD (лингвистика), преподаватель кафедры языкознания и лингвистики Университета Майдугури, представитель факультета в Сенатском комитете</p></bio><email>idrisbello2014@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Maiduguri</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Майдугури</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-06-20" publication-format="electronic"><day>20</day><month>06</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>12</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Image of a Language Personality  in the Language Studies of the XXI Century</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Образ языковой личности в языкознании XXI века</issue-title><fpage>514</fpage><lpage>525</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-06-20"><day>20</day><month>06</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Bello I.M.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Белло И.М.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Bello I.M.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Белло И.М.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/26760">https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/26760</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">Case Theory interacts with Government Theory in its operation and so, cases are assigned to the complements of governors. Case assigners are the governors of their dependent clauses while the case receivers are the governed NPs. So, the purpose of the study is to survey case assignment in Fulfulde generally by identifying and analysing the elements of Fulfulde structures and their relationship in terms of structural case. Unstructured observation was the method used for eliciting data for this study. Adequate and natural data were recorded and analysed sentence by sentence, the way they were uttered by the native speakers. The Theoretical Framework adopted for data analysis by this study is Principle and Parameters Theory. The study discovered that in Government, apart from (V)erbs, (P)repositions and tensed INFL, (N)ouns, (A)djectives and Focus Markers FMs can also govern and assign case to their complements in Fulfulde. The study has proved that in Fulfulde, cases can be assigned either to the left or to the right, depending on the relation.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Цель исследования - представить общую картину падежных функций в языке фула (Fulfulde) путем идентификации и анализа элементов структур языка фула и их отношении к терминам структурного описания падежей. Описание уровня наблюдения стало основным методом сбора материала для исследования. Зафиксированный оригинальный и адекватный материал был проанализирован предложение за предложением с учетом их употребления носителями языка фула. В данном исследования теоретическая основа анализа материала обусловлена принципами параметрического описания. В ходе исследования было установлено, что теория управления наряду с глаголами (V), предлогами (P) и комплексом INFL, включающим имена (N), прилагательные (A) и фокус-маркеры (FM), в полной мере характеризует функции падежа языка фула относительно опорного слова в предложении. Исследование показало, что в предложении падежи распределяются в зависимости от характера синтаксической связи и отношения, как и позиции левого или правого распространителя опорного слова.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Case assignment</kwd><kwd>case form</kwd><kwd>Fulfulde</kwd><kwd>government</kwd><kwd>Principle &amp; Parameters Theory</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>распределение падежей</kwd><kwd>падежная форма</kwd><kwd>язык фула (Fulfulde)</kwd><kwd>теория принципов и параметров</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>David, E.M., Simons, G.F. &amp; Charles. D.F. (eds.) (2020). 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