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 Vocative case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The vocative case is the case used for a noun identifying the person (animal, object, etc.) being addressed and/or occasionally the determiners of that noun.
In Latin, e.g., the nominative case is lupus and the vocative case is lupe!
The vocative case in Romanian is inherited from Latin.
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 Nominative case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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).
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 Accusative case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The accusative case of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a verb.
"Whom" is the accusative case of "who"; "him" is the accusative case of "he" (the final "m" of both of these words can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European accusative case suffix); and "her" is the accusative case of "she".
This is the form in nominative case, used for the subject of a sentence.
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 Genitive case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The genitive case is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun.
Linguists generally believe that English possessive is no longer a case at all, but has become a clitic, an independent particle which, however, is always pronounced as part of the preceding word.
In Baltic-Finnic languages, the accusative case -(e)n is homophonic to the genitive case.
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 Encyclopedia: Ergative case
The dative case is a grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to whom something is given.
Illative case in the Finno-Ugric languages Illative is, in the Finnish language, Estonian language and the Hungarian language, the third of the locative cases with the basic meaning of into (the inside of).
This declension (case) indicates a change in state of a noun, with the general sense of becoming X or change to X. In the Finnish language, this is the counterpart of the Essive case, with the basic meaning of a change of state.
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 Prolative case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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In a sentence, nouns that name the subject are in the nominative case, direct objects in the accusative case, and indirect objects in the dative case to name a few.
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 Prolative case - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The prolative case is a declension of a noun or pronoun that has the basic meaning of "by way of".
The prolative is alive and well in Estonian.
In the Finnish language, it has a highly restricted, almost fossilized meaning "by (medium of transaction)".
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 Dative case - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The dative case is a grammatical case for nouns and/or pronouns.
While the dative case is no longer a part of modern English usage, it survives in a few set expressions.
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".
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 Declension - Slider   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The patient of a (transitive) verb is in the accusative case.
This noun is in the trigger case, and information elsewhere in the sentence (for example a verb affix in Tagalog) specifies the role of the trigger.
The Status of Morphological Case in the Icelandic Lexicon by Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson.
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 Science Fair Projects - Accusative case
The accusative case of a noun is, generally, the case used to mark the direct object of a verb.
"Whom" is the accusative case of "who"; "him" is the accusative case of "he"; and "her" is the accusative case of "she".
In English, which has mostly lost the case system, the definite article and noun — "the car" — remain in the same form regardless of the grammatical role played by the words.
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 Genitive case
The genitive case is an adjectival form of a noun that shows some sort of relationship between itself and what it describes.
Linguists generally believe that English possessive is no longer a case at all, but has become a clitic, an independent particle which, however, is always written and pronounced as part of the preceding word.
In astronomy, it is important to know the genitive form of the Latin names of constellations, because these are used along with letters of the Greek alphabet to name stars.
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 Prolative case
The Prolative case has the basic meaning of "by way of".
In the Finnish language, this is only found in a few "fossilised" forms (though it is alive and well in Estonian).
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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 Instrumental case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The instrumental case appears in Old English, Georgian, Sanskrit, and the Balto-Slavic languages.
An instrumental/comitative case is arguably present in Turkish and other Altaic languages.
Also, Uralic languages reuse the adessive case where available, or locative case if not, to mark the same category.
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 Instructive case
In the Finnish language, the instructive case has the basic meaning of "by means of".
It is a comparatively rarely used case, though it is found in some commonly used expressions, such as "omin silmin" -> "with my own eyes".
In modern Finnish, many of its instrumental uses are being superseded by the Adessive case, as in "minä kävin junalla" -> "I travelled by train."
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 Encyclopedia: Vocative case
In linguistics, the ablative case is a noun case found in several languages, including Armenian, Latin, Sanskrit and in the Finno-Ugric languages.
Examples are Modern Greek and Slavic languages such as Polish, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Ukrainian, the modern Celtic languages such as Scottish Gaelic and Irish, and - to a lesser extent - Russian.
In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract, in contrast to consonants, which are characterized by a constriction or closure at one or more points along the vocal tract.
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 Read about Nominative case at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Nominative case and learn about Nominative case here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
English use the term subjective case instead of nominative, in order to draw attention to the differences between the "standard" generic nominative and the way it is used in English.
accusative case or oblique case: I (accusative, me), we (accusative, us), he (accusative, him), she (accusative, her) and they (accusative, them).
Therefore, in some languages the nominative case is unmarked, that is, the nominative word is the base form or stem, with no flexion.
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 Declension: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Declension
Prepositional/postpositional: Nouns are accompanied by words that mark case, but the noun itself is not modified.
See Nominative case, Accusative case, Dative case, Ergative case, Absolutive case, Genitive case, Vocative case, Partitive case, Inessive case, Elative case, Illative case, Adessive case, Allative case, Ablative case, Essive case, Translative case, Instructive case, Abessive case, Comitative case, Prolative case, Locative case, Possessive case.
For an example of a language that uses a large number of cases, view the section on "Cases" in the Finnish language grammar article.
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 Encyclopedia: Nominative case
In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the system used to distinguish arguments of transitive verbs and intransitive verbs.
Moreover, in most languages with a nominative case, the nominative form is the one used to cite a word, to list it as a dictionary entry, etc.
Categories: Grammatical cases In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the system used to distinguish arguments of transitive verbs and intransitive verbs.
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 Ablative Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
From these original meanings several others developed, including the ablative of cause (indicating "caused by"), the ablative of time and means (indicating "at the time of", deriving from the locative), and the ablative absolute.
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").
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 Vocative case - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In Latin the vocative case of a noun is the same as the nominative, except for masculine singular second declension nouns.
When Latin names are translated into English, the nominative case is usually used.
English simply uses the nominative case for vocative expressions but sets them off from the rest of the sentences with pauses (rendered in writing as commas).
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 Inessive case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In Hungarian suffix "ban/ben" is most commonly used for inessive, although many others, such as -on, -re, -en, and others are also used, especially with cities.
In the Finnish language, inessive is the first of the six locative cases which as their basic meaning correspond to locational (http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Locational) prepositions in English.
This page was last modified 03:30, 30 Jul 2004.
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 A Very Short Finnish Grammar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Several of these cases are also so regular that they may be considered enclitic particles added to the bare stem of the word (sometimes causing a slight phonetic mutation).
The prolative case is almost completely defunct in modern Finnish, and is usually not included in the list of case forms, but rather tends to be viewed in other ways, such as a suffix for adverb derivation.
In many cases, the suffixes are just added to the noun stem, but in quite a few cases the stem undergoes changes as part of the inflection.
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 Read about Ergative case at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Ergative case and learn about Ergative case here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In ergative-absolutive languages, the ergative case identifies the subject of a
Furthermore, the agent has been shown to have a fixed location in which it is base-generated in the specifier of a light-verb projection within
accusative case along with an ergative case, and lack an absolutive case.
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 What is case?
Case is a grammatical category determined by the syntactic or semantic function of a noun or pronoun.
The term case has traditionally been restricted to apply to only those languages which indicate certain functions by the inflection of
In the following sentence, case is indicated by the case markers ga, ni, and o:
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 Prolative case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The prolative is alive and in Estonian but in the Finnish language is only found in a few forms.
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 Learn more about List of linguistic topics in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 List of linguistic topics - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 Prosecutive case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The prosecutive case is a declension found in Tundra Nenets language.
This is a variant of the "prolative case".
This page was last modified 07:30, 12 March 2005.
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