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Grammatical case

A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In various languages, nominal groups consisting of a noun and its modifiers belong to one of a few such categories.

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History

Etymology

Indo-European languages

Hierarchy of cases

Case order

Case concord systems

Declension paradigms

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Evolution

Case in generative grammar

Linguistic typology

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Grammatical case

Nodes195
Edges194
Triples123
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010256
Components1

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Grammatical case

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related to Lithuanian · 22
Grammatical case → Accusative, Baltame, Cafe, Dative, Ei, Genitive, He, Hey, Instrumental, Jis, Lithuanian, Locative, Nominative, Susitiksime, Tai, This, Tom, Tomas, Typically, Vocative
related to Etymology · 18
Grammatical case → Czech, European, French, German, German Fall, Greek, Italian, Kasus, Latin, PIE, Proto-Indo-European, The, The Dutch, The English, The Finnish, The Latin, The Russian, This
related to history · 18
Grammatical case → Alexandria, Anacreon, Ancient Greek, Ancient Greeks, Aristotle, BCE, Dionysius Thrax The Art, Grammar, Grammatical, Hellenistic, In, Indo-European, It, Library, Of, Peripatetic, Stoics, The
related to Declension paradigms · 14
Grammatical case → Ancient Greek, Declension, For, In, In Indo-European, Languages, Latin, Polish, Pronouns, Russian, Sanskrit, Slavic, Slovak, To
related to Case in generative grammar · 11
Grammatical case → Agree, All, As, Burzio's, Functional, In, Similarly, Some, Structural, There, Where
related to German · 10
Grammatical case → Below, Der Name, Der Seemann, German, Geschenk, Ich, In German, Otto, Seemann, Seemannes
related to Sanskrit · 5
Grammatical case → For, Grammatical, Pāṇini, Sanskrit, The
related to Hindi-Urdu · 3
Grammatical case → Hindi-Urdu, Hindustani, The
see also · 2
Grammatical case → Agreement, Case
is a · 1
Grammatical case → category of nouns and noun modifiers

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case cases noun languages genitive nominative accusative english object dative nouns pronouns grammatical example latin word forms one locative language

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Grammatical caseis acategory of nouns and noun modifiers0.90text
Iinstance ofForms0.80text
heinstance ofForms0.80text
and we are used for the subjectinstance ofForms0.80text
agentinstance ofCases should be distinguished from thematic roles0.80text
patientinstance ofCases should be distinguished from thematic roles0.80text
Latininstance ofand in languages0.80text
several thematic roles are realised by a somewhat fixed case for deponent verbsinstance ofand in languages0.80text
but cases are a syntagmatic / phrasal categoryinstance ofand in languages0.80text
and thematic roles are the function of a syntagma / phrase in a larger structureinstance ofand in languages0.80text
Iinstance ofsubjective pronouns0.80text
heinstance ofsubjective pronouns0.80text

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