----------------------------------------------------------------- Comments: An example of a case-marker would be "yaaro yaa-syaa w maalmins littaafi", (the boy bought the teacher a book, where "w" is marking teacher "maalmins" as the indirect object). This example doesn't parse :( I changed my head-opt-subject-phrase (which only functions with the sentence-final question marker) so that it would only take a main clause verb, or in other words a non-head-dtr with an inflected verb (not infinitive). I assume you mean head-dtr, since head-opt-subj is a unary rule (and therefor has no non-head-dtr). I don't understand why this rule is currently constraining the CASE of the subject, though. I think that constraint probably isn't having any effect. Now the CASE nom pronoun "I and the boy went to the market" (nii d yaaro mun-jee kasuwaa) will parse, but the CASE dat won't (min d yaaro mun-jee kasuwaa). Nice :-)