Direct case

Not to be confused with direct object.

In Indo-Aryan languages, the direct case is the name given to a grammatical case used with all three core relations: the agent of transitive verbs, the patient of transitive verbs, and the agent of intransitive verbs.

Such a case may also be called the nominative case, but some linguists reserve that term for cases that cover other roles or combinations of roles.

[edit] References

Blake, Barry J. [1994] (2001). Case, Second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ^{[page # needed]}

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Cases

Basic	Absolutive • Accusative • Direct • Ergative • Intransitive • Nominative • Oblique

Adpositional	Ablative • Antessive • Dative • Distributive (–temporal) • Essive (–formal, –modal) • Formal • Genitive • Instructive • Instrumental (–comitative) • Possessive • Postpositional • Prepositional • Prolative • Prosecutive • Proximative • Sociative • Temporal • Vialis

Locative	Ablative • Adessive • Allative • Apudessive • Associative • Comitative • Delative • Elative • Exessive • Illative • Inelative • Inessive • Lative • Locative • Perlative • Subessive • Sublative • Superessive • Superlative • Terminative • Translative

Comparative	Comparative • Equative

Evaluative	Aversive • Benefactive • Evitative

Other	Abessive • Addirective • Adelative • Adverbial • Caritive • Causal (–final) • Final • Modal • Multiplicative • Partitive • Pegative • Privative • Postelative • Postdirective • Postessive • Separative • Subdirective • Suppressive • Vocative

Fictional	Dedative

Declensions