| 释义 |
allative, a. Gram.|ˈælətɪv|
[f. L. allāt- ppl. stem of afferre to bring to + -ive.]
Denoting the case used in some languages, e.g. Finnish, to express motion to or toward.
1860Trans. Philol. Soc. 1857 34 The declension of the personal pronouns [in the Tushi Language] is as follows..Singular..Affective..Allative. 1924O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. xiii. 182 Finnish has no dative proper, but the ‘allative’ which expresses motion to or into the neighbourhood of, often corresponds to the Aryan dative. 1928Mod. Lang. Rev. Apr. 137 Thus, he might say, in Finnish the indirect object is in the allative case. 1939L. H. Gray Found. Lang. vii. 194 The Eskimo allative, denoting that toward which an action tends. 1951Archivum Linguisticum III. 57 An allative-dative type of case suffix. |