predicative case

plural predicative cases

1. grammarA 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).

   Even Arie deJong's revision of Volapük addded a predicative case.

   2005, "Paul Bartlett" (username), "New (?) conlang", in alt.language.artificial, Usenet

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   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

   The conclusion could be formulated as follows: in Common Baltic, there was probably a certain marginal use of the instrumental as a marked predicative case alongside the nominative.

   2004, William R. Schmalstieg, Philip Baldi, Pietro U. Dini, Studies in Baltic and Indo-European linguistics, page 88