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adessive

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ad·es·sive  (dsv)
adj.
Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case expressing means, as Finnish puhumalla "by speaking, while speaking."
n.
1. The adessive case.
2. A word in the adessive case.
[From Latin adesse, to be present : ad-, ad- + esse, to be; see es- in Indo-European roots.]
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I suppose that meaning transition 'adessive' [right arrow] 'genitive' happened from predicative 'have'-construction to attributive construction: adessive modifier (perhaps at the beginning only animate entity) in 'have'-construction with development of sentence parts in the position before subject or not direct object drifted apart from the intransitive predicate and became genitive attribute.
Attributive possession in Udmurt language/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ... by Edygarova, Svetlana / Linguistica Uralica
The adessive indirectal (see Chapter 4) that occurs in the material of the 1970s, has become deeply rooted in the journalistic texts of the 1990s.
Indirectal in literary Estonian by Sepper, Maria-Maren / Trames
The eleven 'semantic' case forms of an Estonian nominal (illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, translative, terminative, essive, abessive and comitative) are all based on the corresponding genitives, as illustrated in table 3.
Declension classes in Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Blevins, James P. / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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