Jump to content

User:DCDuring/Cases and English prepositions

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Case English prepositions Comment
abessive case without -less
ablative case away, away from, concerning -
absolutive case NA patient (subject of intransitive verb)
accusative case NA direct object
adessive case near, at, by -
adnominal case
no WP, no OneLook
- -
w:agentive case - subject of transitive verb
allative case to, onto -
w:associative case with -
benefactive case for -
caritive case without -
w:causal case because of? -
w:causal-final case for the purpose of -
w:causative case because of -
comitative case with -
comparative case like -
w:compellative case
No WP, No OneLook
- -
w:conformative case
No WP, No OneLook
- -
dative case to (sometimes omitted after bitransitive verbs), for -
w:dedative case
deleted article
- -
delative case from, off, off of -
w:directional case
No WP, No OneLook
- -
w:disjunctive case - -
w:distributive case per, for, etc. each, a ("a week") -
w:distributive-temporal case by ("by day", "at night"), of a -s (adverbial genitive, "nights", "Sundays")
elative case out of -
equative case - -
ergative case - agent of transitive verb
essive case as temporary state
essive-formal case - -
essive-modal case - -
factive case - -
final case - -
formal case - -
genitive case of possession, origin
illative case into -
inclusive case - -
inessive case in, inside -
instructive case by means of -
instrumental case by -
instrumental-comitative case - -
interactive case - -
intransitive case - -
introessive case - -
lative case - -
limitational case - -
locative case in, on, at, by -
modal case - -
multiplicative case - -
mutative case - -
nominative case - subject, agent
objective case - -
oblique case - -
oppositive case - -
partitive case - some or any
w:perlative case through, across, along -
possessive case of 's
w:postpositional case - -
predicative case - -
prepositional case - -
privative case without -
prolative case by way of, by -
prosecutive case along -
w:purposive case - -
w:relative case - -
w:reportative case - -
similative case - -
w:situative case - -
sociative case together with -
w:stative case - -
w:subessive case below, beneath, under -
w:sublative case like subessive, but with movement
substantive case - -
superessive case on, atop -
temporal case at point
terminative case until, upto -
translative case becoming -
w:validative case - -
vocative case - "O"

Theta roles

[edit]