Question

Verbs that license this case are the subject of Burzio’s generalization, which inspired the hypothesis that this case is actually assigned by a predicate called “little (10[1])v.” A construction named for this case plus the infinitive is similar to the exceptional case-marking construction in English. This is the second case in the name of the world’s most common morphosyntactic (10[1])alignment. Adding the (10[1])prefix (10[1])“un-” to the name of this case (10[1])gives a term (10[1])for an intransitive verb whose subject is not an agent, contrasted (10[1])with an unergative (“un-ERG-uh-tiv”) verb. (10[1])In Latin, this case can be used when describing motion toward a (10[1])destination, (10[3]-5[1])such as Romam (-5[1])(“ROH-mahm”) meaning “toward Rome.” (10[1]-5[2])Both this case (10[1])and the dative were supplanted by the oblique (10[1]-5[1])case in English. For 10 points, name this case that marks the direct object (10[1])of a transitive verb. (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[3])

ANSWER: accusative case [or ACC]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2387%0%22%96.10

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kevin FanMcGill ARutgers A2510
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn APenn State A5810
Ashish SubramanianDuke AMaryland A6110
Leah HonsingerFlorida AStanford A6210
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BHouston A6910
John MarvinChicago BBrown A7210
Conor ThompsonIowa State AIllinois A8310
Matt JacksonChicago AYale A8710
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech ACornell A9910
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AIndiana A100-5
Lexi TermanRutgers BVanderbilt A10010
Geoffrey WuColumbia AToronto A10010
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BYale B10010
Clark SmithOhio State AWUSTL A103-5
Keegan MartinNYU AColumbia B106-5
Rohan ShelkeUC Berkeley BPurdue A106-5
Jeffrey FungHarvard ATexas A10610
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota AChicago C10910
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech BVirginia A11710
Todd MaslykMichigan AImperial A117-5
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina AClaremont A13110
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AMIT A13510
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins AMinnesota B13610
Alex AkridgeIndiana ANorthwestern A1360
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BNYU A13610
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AUC Berkeley B13610
Enoch YuenImperial AMichigan A1360
Charles HangWUSTL AOhio State A1360