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Topic: Adverbial case


  
  Grammatical case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In grammar, the case of a noun or pronoun is its grammatical function in a greater phrase or clause; such as the role of subject, of direct object, or of possessor.
While all languages distinguish cases in some fashion, it is only customary to say that a language has cases when these are codified in the morphology of its nouns — that is, when nouns change their form to reflect their case.
Cases are not very prominent in modern English, except in its personal pronouns (a remnant of the more extensive case system which existed in Old English).
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 Adverbial case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The adverbial case is a noun case in the Abkhaz language and Georgian language that has a function similar to the translative and essive cases.
The adverbial case also acts as the essive case, as in:
The adverbial case is also employed when stating the name of a language:
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adverbial_case   (132 words)

  
 Case - CDLI Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There are three nominal cases that should probably be categorized as core or grammatical in nature: the zero-marked absolutive/nominative case, the ergative case-marking postposition /*-e/, which is formally identical with the locative-terminative case-marking postposition, and the genitive case-marking postposition /*-a/.
The allative, known in the older literature as the terminative case, is usually associated with the *-ši- verbal infix.
The adverbiative, which was proposed by Attinger (1993, 253), may or may not be identical in form with the allative.
cdli.ucla.edu /wiki/index.php/Case   (730 words)

  
 Epiq Noun Cases
Summary: The dative case is used for the beneficiaries of class 1 and class 4 verbs, for the indirect objects or beneficiaries of class 2 verbs, and for the subjects of class 3 verbs.
The dative case is used to mark both the beneficiary and the indirect object of a class 2 verb.
The adverbial case is used to mark the complement of a class 4 verb.
dedalvs.free.fr /epiq/ncases.html   (3024 words)

  
 Ablative case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Generalizing their function, however, ablatives modify or limit verbs by ideas of where (place), when (time), how (manner), etc. Hence, the case is sometimes also called the adverbial case; this can be quite literal, as phrases in ablative can be translated as adverbs.
In Finnish, the ablative case is the sixth of the locative cases with the meaning "from off of", e.g.
It is an outer locative case, used just as the adessive and allative cases to denote both being on top of something and "being around the place" (as opposed to the inner locative case, the elative, which means "from out of" or "from the inside of").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ablative_case   (842 words)

  
 absolutive case Information Center - absolutive case
In ergative-absolutive languages, the absolutive is the grammatical case used to mark both the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb.
In the languages of this kind, the ergative case is typically marked (most salient), while the absolutive case is unmarked.
For this reason, words in absolutive case are usually used absolutive case as the lemma to represent a lexeme.
www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_A_-_Co/absolutive_case.html   (131 words)

  
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Adverbial subjectivism characterizes this in terms of an array of sensory events to which the adverbs 'redly', 'circularly', 'greenly', 'squarely', and 'insidely' apply.
But according to Ross, adverbial subjectivism cannot accommodate this case because it cannot capture what it is for the one event of sensing to be sensed as being inside the other.
In the case of locations in the visual field, this means that each such location in the field must be coordinated with some physical location that the field location represents.
web.gc.cuny.edu /cogsci/ross-cc.htm   (4615 words)

  
 ergative case Information Center - ergative case
In such languages, the ergative case is typically marked (most salient), while the absolutive case is unmarked.
New work in case theory has vigorously supported the idea that the ergative case identifies the agent (intentful doer of action) of a verb (Woolford 2004).
Certain Australian Aboriginal languages (e.g., Warlpiri) possess an intransitive case and an accusative case along with an ergative case, and lack an absolutive case; such languages are called ergative-accusative languages or tripartite languages.
www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_Cr_-_G/ergative_case.html   (136 words)

  
 Chicago Linguistic Society
case is available for the object in the former but not in the latter.
In some languages, adverbials may be case-marked in the accusative, and provide a boundedness to an event.
However, in Korean, duration and frequency adverbials may appear in accusative or nominative, with no apparent difference in their temporal or aspectual semantic contribution.
humanities.uchicago.edu /orgs/cls/conf/case_voice.html   (708 words)

  
 The Russian Noun Case System
The Accusative Case serves primarily to indicate the direct object of the verb, the noun to which something is done.
The Genitive Case is the 'of' case in that it translates English prepositional phrases beginning with 'of'.
The pattern in Declension IV is for the accent to fall on the stem in the nominative-accusative and on the ending in the remaining four cases.
www.alphadictionary.com /rusgrammar/case.html   (1696 words)

  
 Nominative case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The nominative case is a grammatical case for a noun.
The nominative case is the usual, natural form (more technically, the least marked) of certain parts of speech, such as nouns, adjectives, pronouns and less frequently numerals and participles, and sometimes does not indicate any special relationship with other parts of speech.
In nominative-absolutive languages, the nominative case marks the subject of a transitive verb or a voluntary subject of an intransitive verb, but not an involuntary subject of an intransitive verb (for which the absolutive case is used).
www.abcworld.net /Nominative_case.html   (305 words)

  
 A Practical Grammar of the Pali Language - Chapter 11
The Dative Case: the adverbial use of the dative is restricted to atthŒya, for the sake of, for the purpose of; cirŒya, for a long time; hitŒya, for the benefit of.
The Locative is very often used adverbially: bŒhire, outside; dère, far, avidère, not far; sam´pe, santike, near; rahasi, privately, in secret; bhuvi, on earth, on the earth.
The cases mostly used with prepositions or prepositional Adverbs are: the genitive, the instrumentive and the accusative.
www.tipitaka.net /pali/grammar/chpt11.htm   (859 words)

  
 ADVERBIAL-PARTICIPLE
The Adverbial Participle of Concession, equivalent to a concessive clause.
The Adverbial Participle of Cause, equivalent to a causal clause.
That the participle, however, was in some cases still felt as a substantive (Adjective Participle used substantively) seems probable from its being used correlatively with an adjective or noun and from the occasional use of the participle with the article.
www.dabar.org /BurtonMoodsTenses/ADVERBIAL-PARTICIPLE.html   (1623 words)

  
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NOMINATIVE CASE A noun in the nominative case is often the subject of a verb.
ACCUSATIVE CASE The noun which is directly affected by the action of a verb is put into the accusative case.
The form of the vocative case -- that is, the ending you attach to the stem to form the case -- is almost always identical to the nominative form of the word.
www.wordgumbo.com /ie/rom/lat/wl/lat02.txt   (3141 words)

  
 The Genitive Case in Latin
The chief use of the genitive case in Latin is to qualify nouns.
The word or words which are found in the genitive case DESCRIBE, DEFINE, or CLASSIFY the person or thing which is denoted by the noun which is being qualified.
The kinds of connections between the genitive and the noun which it qualifies are quite varied, and their complexity may well derive from the fact that some of the genitive ideas were once separate cases (as they still are in other related languages, like Sanscrit).
www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/genitive.html   (393 words)

  
 Steve Case in TutorGig Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Caucus Case was a court case handled by Muhammad Ali Jinnah at the behest of Sir Pherozeshah Mehta at the Bombay High Court in 1905.
Table Cases In the Finnish language, the Allative case abbreviation abbreviated small ALL small, from..., it is the logical complement of the adessive case for referring to being around the place.
Table Cases The adverbial case is a noun case in the Abkhaz language and Georgian language that has a function similar to the translative case translative and essive case essive cases.
www.tutorgig.com /es/Steve+Case   (811 words)

  
 Epiq Verbs
They assign the nominative case to their subjects, the accusative case to their definite direct objects, the genitive case to their indefinite direct objects, and the dative case to their indirect objects or beneficiaries.
They assign the dative case to their subjects, the nominative case to their direct objects, and the accusative case to their beneficiaries.
They assign the nominative case to their subjects, the instrumental case to their direct objects, the dative case to their indirect objects or beneficiaries, and the adverbial case to their thematic complements (e.g., "I pronounce him dead").
dedalvs.free.fr /epiq/verbs.html   (3131 words)

  
 Short-answer models (with elaboration suggestions) for the exam paper "GRAMMATIK onsdag 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The ellipsis is retrievable from the preceding sentence and thus instantiates a case of textual extrasentential ellipsis.
This is a case of full inversion found with the topicalised A:g "On the landing" and the semantically light simple predicator of stance "stood" and the focalised nominal S:g "plush bears".
This is a case of full subject-predicator inversion, since the whole predicator precedes the subject, which is enabled by the initial topicalised place adverbial "In a galaxy far, far away" and a semantically light predicator, viz.
www.hum.sdu.dk /institut/isk/kasch/SA-all.html   (7474 words)

  
 #035 Embedded Root Phenomena
The particular phenomenon most famously reanalysed as a case of movement to Comp is the Germanic Verb Second (V2) phenomenon, in particular as evidenced in German and Dutch; the empirical strength of the analysis is the immediate explanation for the complementarity of V2 and the presence of a lexical complementiser.
Adverbial clauses may or may not be asserted (and in some cases may force the main clause itself to be read as presupposed, and hence not asserted (pp.
In all cases the finite verb is in C and the XP preceding it in the Specifier of this CP; the complementiser is the head of a higher CP.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /~heycock/papers/case_035_erp.html   (8967 words)

  
 comitative case Information Center - comitative case
The Comitative case is used where English would use "in company comitative case with" or "together with".
It, and many other cases, are found in the Finnish language, the Hungarian language, and the Estonian language.
It is debatable if this is a grammatical case, because it does not obey vowel harmony; that is, there is no form -nkää.
www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_A_-_Co/comitative_case.html   (302 words)

  
 Performing experiments using FTFs
A white arrow, meaning that the constituent eventually follows the previous one, is employed between the VP and the adverbial clause.
If we argue that cases of adverbial clauses within other cases are not at all independent from their parent, the worst case assumption would be that we should halve the observed and expected sample before performing the test.
The adverbial case may be counted twice within the same structure while the more general FTF without the adverbial is only counted once.
www.ucl.ac.uk /english-usage/resources/ftfs/experiment4.htm   (2444 words)

  
 Greek infinitive & participle
That is, it is normally adverbial (in a broad sense) rather than functioning independently as a verb.
The adverbial or circumstantial participle is grammatically subordinated to its controlling verb (usually the main verb of the clause).
The participle as an imperative is a case in point; this use of the participle is not attached to any verb in the context.
www.bcbsr.com /greek/gvbls.html   (1765 words)

  
 [B-Greek] Acts 22,6
To show that the subject of the participle is the same as the subject of the finite verb, the participle will bear the case of the main verbâEUR(tm)s subject (nominative).
If the subject of an adverbial participle was different than the subject of the main verb, Greek writers used the genitive absolute construction, as a âEURoeswitch referenceâEUR device.
The PRS article suggests that if Greek used genitive case whenever the subject of the participle was different than the subject of the main verb, then other oblique case participles must have an adjectival rather than an adverbial function.
lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-greek/2004-April/029322.html   (375 words)

  
 Abstracts
If the definition of the “valency” of a verb is made according to the number of core cases, the definition of “core cases” are, on their part, dependent on the presumed verbal valency.
A case-system with 8 cases in singular and plural is as well in doubt as the existence of adjectives beside nouns and verbs in Indo-European.
In one case the new stem was built directly from the underlying root (the so-called primary derivation), in the other an already existing nominal or verbal stem served as the derivational base (the so-called secondary derivation).
www.hum.ku.dk /ichl2003/abstracts/section2.html   (3412 words)

  
 COROLLARY THEOREMS - ENGLISH GRAMMAR: SENTENCE SYNTAX
Indirect object is in dative case, marked by the preposition "to", or "for".
Prepositional adverbial is adverbial of manner, time, place, cause, etc. The name "prepositional" is used only to highlight that the adverbial of manner, time, place, cause, etc., may be preceded by a preposition (this doesn't happen all the time).
Adverbials describe the circumstances (the environment) in which the action of the verb is performed, or they present particular, characteristic features.
www.corollarytheorems.com /Grammar/sentence.htm   (1467 words)

  
 YCOE, POS Annotation
The marking of case on words which are not unambiguous in isolation, and which do not inherit case in any of the specified ways depends on a series of rules for resolving (or failing to resolve) the ambiguity.
Case is labelled on MICEL, LYTEL, and EALL in all such cases since they occur in a range of cases in adverbial function, as well as MARE and L+ASSE; other quantifers in adverbial use generally have zero inflection, and are only labelled for case in the few situations in which the inflection is not zero.
This means that in the case of a left-dislocated nom/acc ambiguous NP with an accusative resumptive element, the ambiguity cannot be resolved, and thus the left-dislocated NP is not labelled for case.
www-users.york.ac.uk /~lang22/YCOE/doc/annotation/YcoePos.htm   (12236 words)

  
 adessive case Information Center - adessive case
In the Finnish language, Estonian language and Hungarian language the adessive case is the fourth of the locative cases with the basic meaning of "on".
It is also used as an instrumental case in Finnish.
The adessive case meaning distributes along time, too: "at (someone's) lunch break" is ruokatunnilla, whereas ruokatunnissa is "within a lunch break".
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 Qwika - similar:Inflection
In fusional languages and polysynthetic languages, this is often not the case.
This is a list of cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension.
For example, the English compound doghouse, where house is the head and dog is the modifier, is understood as a house intended for a d...
www.qwika.com /rels/Talk%3AInflection   (1242 words)

  
 Glossary of Grammatical Terms
English has only two cases: nominative (used for the subject of a sentence) and objective (used for everything else).
Hardly any English nouns decline, but the genitive case is indicated by the endings 's (belonging to one) and s' (belonging to more than one) in such phrases as the dog's bone, the cats' litter box.
Differences in case appear only in pronouns, and then not always (you and it can be either nominative or objective).
www.southwestern.edu /~carlg/Latin_Web/glossary.html   (1342 words)

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