What is accusative case?

Accusative case is the case in nominative-accusative languages that marks certain syntactic functions, usually direct objects.

• What is case?

Hartmann and Stork 1972 3, 156

Crystal 1980 11, 246

Andrews, A. 1985 75

Anderson, S. 1985 181

Mish 1991 50

Context for this page:

• Concept module: accusative case
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): A
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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