module: case

Instance AnyCase


Class:

        CaseFeature
 
       

Entails:

 

Entailed By:

  1. LocationalCase
  2. MotionCase
  3. OtherCase
  4. CoreCase
 

Class Documentation:

CaseValue is the class of values that may be associated with the feature instance 'case'. CaseValue is the class of all case types found in language. Case is a system of marking dependent nouns for the type of relationship (syntactic or semantic) they bear to some other element in the sentence, such as a verb, noun, pronoun, or adposition(Pei and Gaynor 1954: 35; Crystal 1980: 5354; Anderson 1985: 179180; Andrews 1985: 7172; Mish et al. 1990: 211; Kuno 1973: 45; Blake 2001). 

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