| 单词 | common case |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon case common case n. Grammar a grammatical case in which a single (usually uninflected) word form serves the syntactic and semantic functions that are served by a number of different case forms in more heavily inflected languages.Nouns in the common case are a feature of modern English, where the uninflected base of nouns corresponds to the nominative, vocative, accusative, etc., cases of nouns in some other languages. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > other specific cases ablativec1400 instrumental1801 prepositional1824 allative1854 adessive1855 sociative1859 comitative1860 terminative1865 abessive1869 common case1869 translative1869 instructive1879 essive1890 transitional case1890 superessive1895 prepositional case1897 similative1903 lative1939 perlative1953 elative1959 1869 R. Cleasby & G. Vigfusson Icelandic-Eng. Dict. p. xvii/2 In all the pr. names the -u fixedly remains..and this not only in dat. but as a common case for dat. and acc. 1894 O. Jespersen Progress in Lang. 166 The old nominative, accusative, dative and instrumental cases have coalesced to form a common case. 1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts ii. 36 Words of no other kind [than verbs] take the nominative and common-case forms of the personal pronouns as prepositive modifiers in this way. 2006 T. Nevalainen Introd. to Early Mod. Eng. vi. 73 English nouns, for example, take inflections that indicate..a case contrast between the common case (dog) and the genitive (dog's). < as lemmas |
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