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Linglib.Fragments.Finnish.Case

Finnish case #

Finnish has some fifteen cases, each with an ending in the singular. There are the grammatical nominative, genitive, accusative and partitive, six local cases, and the essive, translative, comitative, abessive and instructive. The accusative ending -t is confined to the personal pronouns, as in häne-t 'him, her'. The local cases cross the direction of motion with a region. The inessive -ssA 'in', the elative -stA 'out of' and the illative -Vn 'into' make up the interior series, and the adessive -llA 'on', the ablative -ltA 'off' and the allative -lle 'onto' the exterior series. Finnish has no surface series, which Hungarian has, and no dative, whose recipient function the allative covers, a gap Blake's hierarchy registers (Studies/Blake1994.lean).

The comparative label of the instructive, a case of manner and means as in jala-n 'on foot', is the instrumental.

Main definitions #

Main results #

The endings, spelled in segments, are in Finnish.Declension.

References #

inductive Finnish.Case :

The fifteen cases.

  • nom : Case

    The nominative.

  • gen : Case

    The genitive.

  • acc : Case

    The accusative.

  • part : Case

    The partitive.

  • ine : Case

    The inessive.

  • ela : Case

    The elative.

  • ill : Case

    The illative.

  • ade : Case

    The adessive.

  • abl : Case

    The ablative.

  • all : Case

    The allative.

  • ess : Case

    The essive.

  • transl : Case

    The translative.

  • com : Case

    The comitative.

  • abess : Case

    The abessive.

  • instr : Case

    The instructive, of manner and means.

Instances For
    @[instance_reducible]
    instance Finnish.instDecidableEqCase :
    DecidableEq Case
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    @[instance_reducible]
    instance Finnish.instFintypeCase :
    Fintype Case
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    @[instance_reducible]
    instance Finnish.instReprCase :
    Repr Case
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    def Finnish.instReprCase.repr :
    Case → ℕ → Std.Format
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    Instances For
      theorem Finnish.Case.toCase_mem_image_label_iff {r : Spatial.Localization} {d : Spatial.Path.Direction} {c : _root_.Case} (h : Case.toCase r d = some c) :
      c ∈ Finset.image label Finset.univ ↔ r ≠ Spatial.Localization.surface

      The local cases are the interior and exterior series: a cell of the shared spatial decomposition is the label of a Finnish case exactly when its region is not the surface.