| 单词 | case distinction |
| 释义 | > as lemmascase distinction case distinction n. [originally after German Casusunterschied (1843 or earlier; now usually Kasusunterschied)] Grammar a distinction between cases (sense 1); a feature that serves to indicate the case of a word. ΚΠ 1846 M. Stuart tr. F. H. W. Gesenius Hebrew Gram. iii. 162 The Ethiopic has saved only the -a, and this it employs in the whole domain of the Acc., and also (in its lack of case-distinctions [Ger. mit aufgehobenem Casusunterschied]) as the ending of a noun in the const. state followed by the Genitive. 1894 O. Jespersen Progress in Lang. 31 The doing away with the old case distinctions in English has facilitated many extremely convenient idioms. 2009 Bull. Amer. Schools Oriental Res. No. 356. 63/2 It is thus not possible to determine with certainty whether the {y} was characteristic of this case only,..or whether it was the form retained in the construct state after the case distinction had been lost. < as lemmas |
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