Case

A surname.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A place name:

    1. A township in Presque Isle County, Michigan, United States.

    2. An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.

    3. An unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.

Noun

  1. abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position.
    • The basic principle governing case is: (20) The Case filter: A lexicalized NP must bear a Case feature in S-structure. ‘Case’ with a capital C is here understood not as morphologically marked case, but as an abstract...
    • When we have clitic doubling constructions (with both a full NP and a clitic), the NP needs a dummy Case marker in order to get Case, as its “normal” Case is absorbed by the clitic, otherwise it will be ruled out by the...

Origin

Capitalization by Noam Chomsky.