Elative Case ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/ElativeCase


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

Definition:

ElativeCase expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the location out of which another referent is moving. It has the meaning 'out of' [Lyons 1968: 299; Pei and Gaynor 1954: 64; Crystal 1985: 106].



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Language Code: fin NO_COMMENT
2009-06-04 13:28:07
karhu-sta
bear-ELAT
out of the bear

References:
Kiparsky (2001:316)


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