grammatical case

The English language has largely discarded its case system, which is the manner by which a noun is inflected depending on its grammatical function as a subject or object in a sentence. English largely uses prepositions to accomplish this now, but personal pronouns are one part of English in which the case system is still active, being inflected depending on whether they function as a subject, object, possessive determiner, or possessive pronoun.

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grammatical case - nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence

case

grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties

nominative, nominative case, subject case - the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

oblique, oblique case - any grammatical case other than the nominative

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In a recent publication I have argued that these forms correspond to dative-shift, in which the logical patient is demoted to the essive and the recipient or beneficiary of the action is raised to the absolutive (see Campbell, "Agent, Subject, Patient, and Beneficiary: Grammatical Roles in Hurrian," in Grammatical Case in the Languages of the Middle East and Europe, ed.

Das Ritual der Astu (CTH 490): Rekonstruktion und Tradition eines hurritisch-hethitischen Rituals aus Bogazkoy [Hattusa.]

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It seems that this marker is just on its way to grammaticalize into a real grammatical case marker for all kinds of oblique verbal arguments such as addressees, recipients and experiencer, but also nonprototypical agents.

Nonlocal uses of local cases in the Tsezic languages

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Argument-marking and argument-adjunct prepositions within the lexical domain of speech in old English

grammatical case [Lehmann 1995 [1982]: 112].) But it is not easy to see how possession is more concrete or semantically richer than benefaction or vice versa; possession and benefaction seem to be equally concrete (or abstract) or semantically rich (but cf.

Grammaticalization and structural scope increase: possessive-classifier-based benefactive marking in Oceanic languages *

The Jubilar whose sixty-fifth birthday this volume celebrated is best known for his 1968 paper, "The Case for Case."(1) This captured the imagination of a generation that until then had rarely heard "meaning" mentioned in connection with linguistics, one also that had never encountered a language in which grammatical case played much of a part.

Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics in Honor of Charles J. Fillmore

In addition Pagan reviews indirect and direct discourse, formal types of speeches, Tacitus's fondness for polyptoton (the same word in different grammatical cases) and brachyology (omission of a verb).

Tacitus

(T2) case marking: grammatical cases > semantic or spatial cases

A Canonical Approach to the Argument/Adjunct Distinction

This kind of identity between singular and plural does not occur in other lexical types, nor in the grammatical cases of the given word: pert 'house.NOM.SG' : perti-d 'house-NOM.PL', perti-n 'house-GEN.SG' : perti-de 'house-GEN.PL', perti-d 'house-PART.SG' : perti-i-d 'house-PART.PL'.

Syncretism in the Central Veps local case system