Glossary term L

Locative Case

Locative case is a case that expresses location at the referent of the noun it marks.

The term adessive case, a synonym of locative case, is used especially in studies of Finno-Ugric grammar.

  1. Crystal 1980, 214–215
  2. Mish 1991, 701
  3. Lyons 1968, 299
  4. Crystal 1985, 7
  5. Gove 1966, 25
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