predicative case
A term that may sometimes be used to describe the case marking a predicative noun (a noun that renames the subject often following a linking verb), or for the adjective that agrees with it (predicative adjective).
Noun
- A term that may sometimes be used to describe the case marking a predicative noun (a noun that renames the subject often following a linking verb), or for the adjective that agrees with it (predicative adjective).
- Hjelmslev also notes that in Tabassaran, a Daghestan language of the Caucasus, a language with a very large case system (see section 5.6), there is a predicative case marked by -u-, -ä- or -ö-. - 2001, Barry J. Blake,...
- The conclusion could be formulated as follows: in Common Baltic, there was probably a certain marginal use of the instrumental as a marked predicative case alongside the nominative. - 2004, William R. Schmalstieg,...
- Even Arie deJong's revision of Volapük addded a predicative case. - 2005, "Paul Bartlett" (username), "New (?) conlang", in alt.language.artificial, Usenet