The description of a type of construction in Government and Binding theory in which the logical subject of an embedded sentence appears in the objective case. In these constructions the verb of the matrix sentence is an exceptional case marker....

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In English, ECM, or Exceptional Case Marking verbs are verbs capable of granting accusative case to specifiers of infinitive inflection phrases without the aid of a visible complementizer. ECM verbs in English include believe and prove, as...