Inessive Case
Inessive Case
Inessive case is a case that expresses a location within the referent of the noun it marks.
The term inessive case is used especially in Finnish grammatical studies.
(Finnish)
- talo -ssa house -in(INESSIVE)‘in the house’
Page/s: 299
Source: Lyons 1968
Lyons, John. 1968.Introduction to theoretical linguistics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.
Page/s: 1156
Source: Gove 1966
Gove, Philip B. (editor). 1966.Webster's third new international dictionary of the English language. Unabridged, with seven language dictionary. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Page/s: 156
Source: Crystal 1985
Crystal, David. 1985.A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. 2nd edition. New York: Basil Blackwell.
Broader Terms
- BT↑ Case
Related terms
- RT⇆ Referent
- ExactMatch: https://glossary.sil.org/term/inessive-case
