Glossary term I

Instrumental Case

Instrumental case is a case indicating that the referent of the noun it marks is the means of the accomplishment of the action expressed by the clause.

  1. Crystal 1980, 187
  2. Hartmann and Stork 1972, 114
  3. Mish 1991, 627
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