The phrase "a nominative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about grammar, specifically when referring to a noun or pronoun that serves as the subject of a verb.
Example: "In the sentence 'She runs fast,' 'She' is a nominative."
Alternatives: "a subject" or "a nominative case".
A researcher interested in historic English case law is likely to encounter a citation to a nominative report.
It even does such pairing on a nominative basis by using its half billion Gmail accounts (425 million in June 2012) and connecting its Chrome users.
A yearning evidently has developed for a nominative form of the adjective; when turned into a noun, the word gains a piquant personality it lacks as an adjective.
It's all, I suppose, part of the "big society", a terrible concept which, unfortunately, only seems to have died a nominative death.
Nouns may be singular or plural the dual is lost and all dialects distinguish a nominative (subject) case and accusative (object) case.
In the remaining languages only personal pronouns now have a distinction between a nominative and a non-nominative (dependent) form (e.g., Swedish jag 'I,' mig 'me'me
Accordingly, in her account, case is marked on an ergative-absolutive basis instead of a nominative-accusative basis in Tagalog; constructions like 29a above are treated as antipassives and those like 29b-d above as transitives.
Four sets of pronouns are reconstructed for Proto-Malagasy: a default nominative set marked with Ø, a topicalized nominative set in which 1st person pronouns are marked with a form *i, a genitive set marked with *=n-, and an oblique set marked with *an=.
In so doing, the reporter has the leader of the world's only superpower using a familiar expletive not in its literal verb sense, but in a slangy nominative similar to the usage that, when broadcast, causes great concern at the Federal Communications Commission.
A final marker -s, however, does appear to have been added in some instances of a probable nominative case.
If, for example, a Goidelic nominative form *sindos kattos koilos "the thin cat" is reconstructed, this will give Old Irish in catt coel after the loss of final syllables, but the genitive *sindī kattī koilī "of the thin cat" will give in chaitt choíl with changed initial consonants.
