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Linglib.Fragments.German.Basel.Case

Basel German case #

This file defines the three cases of Basel German, nominative, accusative and dative, with the forms of the definite article and of the stressed first person singular pronoun, following Suter's grammar. The personal pronouns keep all three cases apart (§124). The article marks the dative, but it never tells the accusative from the nominative, so that the accusative differs from the nominative on nouns only by position in the clause (§82). The genitive has long vanished as a case (§91), and the possessor is a dative, with a possessive pronoun or after vo (§193).

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Implementation notes #

A cell holds all the forms Suter gives for it: the article d beside its full form die, and the stressed yy beside yych. The genitive article s of names for a whole family, s Waagners 'the Wagner family' (§83), and the forms am and im heard beside the dative em (§85) are left out.

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The three cases.

  • nom : Case

    The nominative.

  • acc : Case

    The accusative.

  • dat : Case

    The dative.

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    def German.Basel.instReprCase.repr :
    Case → ℕ → Std.Format
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      The forms of the definite article (§83): der in the masculine and s in the neuter nominative and accusative singular, d or die in the feminine singular and the plural, em in the masculine and neuter dative singular, der in the feminine and de in the plural.

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        def German.Basel.pronoun :
        Case → Finset String

        The stressed first person singular pronoun (§125): yych or yy, mii, miir.

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          No form of the article tells the accusative from the nominative (§§82–83).

          The article tells the dative from the nominative in every gender and number (§83).

          theorem German.Basel.pronoun_injective :
          Function.Injective pronoun

          The pronoun keeps the three cases apart (§124), and so it is the pronoun that establishes the accusative.