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predicative cases

predicative cases is the plural of predicative case.

Meaning of predicative case

Noun

predicative case (plural predicative cases)

  1. 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, Case, page 95

Questions about predicative cases

What is predicative cases the plural of?
Predicative cases is the plural of predicative case.

Words near predicative cases in the dictionary

  1. predicative adjective
  2. predicative adjectives
  3. predicative adverbial
  4. predicative adverbials
  5. predicative case
  6. predicative cases
  7. predicatively
  8. predicatives
  9. predicativism
  10. predicativist
  11. predicativists

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