oblique case

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Noun

oblique case - any grammatical case other than the nominative

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

accusative, accusative case, objective case - the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb

dative, dative case - the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb

genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive case - the case expressing ownership

vocative, vocative case - the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed

ablative, ablative case - the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb

Translations

obliikvisija

aukafall

caso oblíquo

косвенный падеж

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The lexical morpheme of the inflected noun was followed by an inflectional morpheme, belonging to the set of the so-called Layer I markers, that assigned the noun to a declensional class and specified the opposition between nominative and oblique case.

From inflection to derivation: outcomes of Early Romani genitive in Piedmontese Sinti

The dative-constituent is promoted to direct object, and the Patient is marked with the oblique case.

Variation in three-participant constructions in Eastern Mansi

The form e is used when the modified noun is marked for accusative (9a), or oblique case and a Layer II marker (9b).

The Domari language of Aleppo (Syria)

Later on they were truncated in the absolutive and reinterpreted as oblique markers, and only used before the oblique case suffixes.

Variation in stem formation in Tsezic languages/Varijacija u tvorbi osnove u cezskim jezicima

A further strategy, involving the marking of the theme with an oblique case, is found with verbs of deprivation: in several languages, including Modern Greek and Russian, the theme is marked by the genitive case, as in (67):

Three-participant events in the languages of the world: towards a crosslinguistic typology (1)

Does not the oblique case sometimes come after these verbs?

Possible origins of different usages in present-day spoken and written English

has acquired a set of oblique case endings that do not belong to it; the explanation of the use of the hard sign is misleading, and the author's attempt to relate his (pragmatically useful) division of Russian into three stylistic registers to Lomonosov's theory of the three styles should be taken with a very large pinch of salt.

Using Russian: A Guide to a Contemporary Usage

That is, it presupposes (since <'en> is the oblique case form in a 3-term contrast in the grammars of dialects in which it occurs) that at some stage the reflex of <hine> took over all the functions of <him>.

The etymology of modern dialect 'en, 'him.' (southwestern England dialect)

This pattern is illustrated by an example from Vafsi, where A is marked by the oblique case in the past tense, and (prominent) P is likewise marked by the oblique.

Analyzing Semantic maps: a multifactorial approach

There are as few as 43 instances of the distinctively singular forms and they occur only in the oblique case.

Evidence for morphological restructuring in the second person pronoun in early English correspondence

OBL' has the same three case markers that it did in (11), but in addition is marked with the oblique case indicating that it belongs to a subordinate clause which functions as a clausal complement of the matrix verb.

Case stacking in realizational morphology

As to her analysis, Carling confirms earlier claims that the directional use of the oblique case in Tocharian is an archaic and recessive usage reflecting the PIE "accusative of direction.