Abessive Case ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/AbessiveCase


Thing
      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Property
                  |_ Morphosyntactic Property
                        |_ Case Property
                              |_ Abessive Case

Definition:

AbessiveCase expresses the lack or absence of the referent of the noun it marks. It has the meaning of the English preposition 'without' [Pei and Gaynor 1954, 3, 35].



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Language Code: fin NO_COMMENT
2009-06-04 13:28:06
kirja-tta
book-ABESS
bookless

References:
Branch (1987:607)


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