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Linglib.Fragments.Greek.Ancient.Case

Ancient Greek case #

Ancient Greek has five cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive and dative. Its dative does not correspond closely to the Latin dative. Greek has no ablative, and of the functions of the Latin ablative the genitive expresses source, while the dative expresses location and instrument beside the indirect object, so that the Greek dative is the more comprehensive case. Blake gives the system, vocative aside, as the four-case stage of his hierarchy.

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The five cases.

  • nom : Case

    The nominative.

  • voc : Case

    The vocative.

  • acc : Case

    The accusative.

  • gen : Case

    The genitive.

  • dat : Case

    The dative.

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    def Greek.Ancient.instReprCase.repr :
    Case → ℕ → Std.Format
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      The comparative values a case expresses: the genitive also expresses source, and the dative location and instrument as well as the indirect object.

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