predicative caseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

predicative case (plural predicative cases)

1. (grammar) A 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).
   • 2001, Barry J. Blake, Case, page 95:

     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-.

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

     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.

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

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