Join Zoom Meeting April 16 11-12 CET https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99870259221 Nominalisations and corresponding verbal/clausal constituents share properties that can be accounted for by either relating them derivationally or attributing some common intrinsic properties (as Chomsky 1970 suggests) to both of them. A less discussed parallelism concerns case alignment in nominals. This is probably due to the fact that the best studied languages usually exhibit a non-clause-like pattern in their nominals, whereby any adnominal arguments may bear the same default case, commonly referred to as the ‘genitive’, regardless of thematic relationships. In a number of languages, however, adnominal arguments may also bear a non-default case, dependent upon the presence of a default-marked argument. In this paper we establish that in such languages, the alignment in nominals is of the same type as case alignment in clausal constituents. We further address the question whether, in order to get clause-like case combinations, the verbal projections typically associated with them need to be present and get nominalised or whether the same case assigning principles operate in nominals and clauses alike, with no need to share v-structure. We will be available for two Zoom Q & A Sessions on April 15 11-12 CET and April 16 11-12 CET.