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Exceptional Case Marking occurs with a special group of verbs whose propositional complement, contrary to other types of verbs, is not realised by a CP but an IP, i.e. these verbs subcategorise for non-finite IPs with overt subjects which must be case-marked. The subjects are case-marked by the case-assigning light verb governing into the VP. The case assigned is accusative, the direction of case-assignment being leftward.