What is nominative case?

Nominative case is the case that identifies clause subjects in nominative-accusative languages. Nouns used in isolation have this case.

Nominative case is not often formally marked in nominative-accusative languages.

• What is case?

Crystal 1980 242

Pei and Gaynor 1954 147

Mish 1991 801

Hartmann and Stork 1972 224

Context for this page:

• Concept module: nominative case
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): N
• 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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