Overview of Case Marking of Moroccan Arabic, Spanish, and Quechua (Imbabura) in WALS (the World Atlas of Language Structures)

“Case marking is one of the most important areas of linguistic typology and universals” (Croft 2003, p. 214). Case marking signifies the grammatical relationship between a noun or pronoun and other sentence elements. Languages mark cases in various ways, including through inflectional endings on nouns, pronouns, and adjectives; through prepositions or postpositions; through word order; or through a combination of these methods. Chapter 49 in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) website focuses on the morphological case marking (Iggesen 2003). This essay discusses the case marking of Moroccan Arabic, Spanish, and Quechua (Imbabura).