Sentence examples for oblique case from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Clinton's supporters said that Mr. Comey's condemnations seemed to make an oblique case for charging her, undermining the effect of his decision.

Like Hindi, Marāṭhī has lost most of its inflectional system to indicate case, using instead postpositions (like prepositions, only following the word) with an oblique "case" to serve the function originally filled by inflection.

According to Rackowski (2002: 110), the applied object receives an inherent oblique case from the applicative head ApplH.

As observed by H. Chang (2011b), there is no DOC in Tsou since one of the three arguments must be in the oblique case.

All of these have the property that the addition of an applicative affix to the verb licenses particular oblique [End Page 477] arguments, without the use of an independent adposition or oblique case.

In the first position, it must be introduced by an oblique case marker, whereas in the second position, it must be led by an absolutive case marker and an LA suffix -i.

Likewise, clee comes from the old nominative clea, whereas RP claw comes from the oblique cases.

A lack of distinction between direct and oblique cases in the plural is typical of several languages, including forms in Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, and Bhojpuri.

The IOL haptics were sutured before the fluid gas exchange in a horizontal (case 1), oblique (cases 2 and 4), and vertical (case 3) manner.

ĕlĕphantus, i, and ĕlĕphās, antis (rarely ĕlĕphans, antis, Plin. 8, 1, 1, 1; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 196; of the second form the nom. sing., and of the first the oblique cases are most freq)., m. (fem., Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 14), = ἐλέφας, an elephant. Form elephantus, Plaut.

Nouns are inflected with one of the two core cases or one of the six oblique cases.