11. However, the comitative case marker cannot be used if the companion has a plural marker. 12. Case markers or prepositions always precede the determiners, which in turn precede the number markers.13. For proper nouns, the determiner and the oblique case marker are fused into a single particle. 14. A noun phrase in Marquesan is any phrase beginning with either a case marker or a determiner. 15. Other case markers such as nominative and genitive are also often omitted in colloquial language as well. 16. Currently, the most complete reconstruction of the Proto-Austronesian case marker system is offered by Malcolm Ross. 17. Historically, the Proto-Germanic weak nouns were characterized by a nasal suffix applied as a case marker . 18. In some situations the case marker ,'i'or'e'attaches to the accusative noun phrase. 19. Plural marker received through Suffixaufnahme ( agreement ); 9 . Case marker received through Suffixaufnahme ( agreement ); 10. 20. Takelma has a complex system of verbal pronominal suffixes and is also accompanied by the loss of case markers on nouns.