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Definition of Adessive
1. Adjective. (grammar) of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates adjacent location. ¹
2. Noun. (grammar) the adessive case, or a word in that case. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adessive
1. a grammatical case denoting where [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adessive
Literary usage of Adessive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Finnish Grammar by Clemens Niemi (1917)
"The adessive expresses the place at or on which, or the object with which anything
is done. It is formed with the endings -lla or -Wl; as, talo\lla, ..."
2. A Finnish Grammar by Charles Eliot (1890)
"The external cases have a tendency to denote animate objects. adessive ... I.
The adessive primarily denotes the place on which an action takes place. ..."
3. A Philological Grammar Grounded Upon English, and Formed from a Comparison by William Barnes (1854)
"DATIVE OR adessive. A thing with the relation but not the motion of another's
predicate to it, is in a case which may be called the dative or ..."
4. General Principles of the Structure of Language by James Byrne (1885)
"Illative adessive -an -tag ... -ef In all the case endings in which Z ¡is found
it denotes external place.3 In the adessive and ..."
5. Proceedings by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England). (1888)
"That in the most ancient Turanian language known, there existed adessive and
Possessive cases formed with an /- sound. ..."
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