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	Encyclopedia: Grammatical case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The patient of a (transitive) verb is in the accusative case.
		The trigger may be identified as the agent, patient, etc. Other nouns may be inflected for case, but the inflections are overloaded; for example, in Tagalog, the subject and object of a verb are both expressed in the genitive case when they are not in the trigger case.
		The Status of Morphological Case in the Icelandic Lexicon (http://www.hi.is/~eirikur/cases.pdf) by Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Grammatical-case (521 words)

	Dative case - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The dative case is a grammatical case for nouns and/or pronouns.
		The dative was common among early Indo-European languages and has survived to the present in the Slavic branch, the Baltic branch and the Germanic branch, among others.
		The pronoun whom is also a remnant of the dative case in English, descending from the Old English dative pronoun "hwām" (as opposed to the nominative "who", which descends from Old English "hwā") — though "whom" also absorbed the functions of the Old English accusative pronoun "hwone".
	open-encyclopedia.com /Dative_case (334 words)

	Declension
		Nominative-accusative: The agent of a verb is always in the nominative case, along with the patient of intransitive verbs.
		This noun is in the trigger case, and inf ormation elsewhere in the sentence (e.g.
		The Status of Morphological Case in the Icelandic Lexicon by Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/declension (544 words)

	Prepositional case -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In some (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) languages, e.g.
		(An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English and (The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) Spanish, all prepositions take a single case; in others, e.g.
		In Russian, the term "prepositional case" (predlozhniy padezh) is used as the name of the (The semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb) locative case, as it can only occur with a preposition.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/prepositional_case.htm (175 words)

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