locative
/lok-uh-tiv/US // ˈlɒk ə tɪv //UK // (ˈlɒkətɪv) grammar //
地点性,地方性的,地方性,定位
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the locative case.
- : a word in that case.
Examples
Even Montenegro was to some degree influenced by this process, having lost one or two cases, such as the locative.
Wude′ligûñ′yĭ—the west; literally “there where it (the sun) goes down” (w prefixed implies distance, yĭ, locative).
Kin or Cin, older cind, is really a survival of the old dative or locative of Gael.
In Latin the locative has been confused with the genitive and the ablative, and the instrumental with the ablative.
In one of his later papers, he argues that the origin of such subjective nominals is often, perhaps generally, locative.
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