Turkish Case Inventory [Bla94b]

[GK05]

Turkish has 6 cases with agglutinative suffixes: NOM (∅), ACC (-I), GEN (-In), DAT (-A), LOC (-DA), ABL (-DAn).

This inventory is perfectly contiguous on Blake's hierarchy: ranks 6–2 with no gaps. Turkish is the typological ideal case for the hierarchy — a rich peripheral inventory built up exactly in the predicted order.

def Turkish.Case.caseInventory : Finset Case

Turkish case inventory: NOM(∅), ACC(-I), GEN(-In), DAT(-A), LOC(-DA), ABL(-DAn).

Equations

• Turkish.Case.caseInventory = {Case.nom, Case.acc, Case.gen, Case.dat, Case.loc, Case.abl}