Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a grammatical case in certain inflected languages that indicates place in or on which or time at which, as in Latin domī, “at home.”
- noun The locative case.
- noun A form or construction in the locative case.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving to indicate the location of anything: as, a locative object in the neighborhood.
- In grammar, indicating place, or the place where or wherein: as, a locative adjective; a locative case.
- In anatomy and zoology, serving to locate or to indicate location or relative situation in a series. Thus, the name metencephalon or midbrain is locative of the part between extremes of a series.
- noun In grammar, a case-form indicating location, as existing in the original Indo-European or Aryan language, and preserved in some of its descendants, especially the Sanskrit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Gram.) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective grammar Indicating
place , or the place where, or wherein. - noun grammar The
locative case .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The umbrella term locative expression is used to cover grammatical units, such as those listed, which provide an index of location, direction and physical setting in narrative description.
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The umbrella term locative expression is used to cover grammatical units, such as those listed, which provide an index of location, direction and physical setting in narrative description.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows geniusroi 2010
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Note that as in * - lale, Ruvu languages add * - i locative, which is why Kagulu converts * - sala to * - sale. back
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Caroline@336: The locative is a weird case that doesn't fit into the usual scheme of 5, and is always identical in form to the genitive or accusative anyway.
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Such elliptical answers are of course used by everyone, and they show the appropriate deletion of subject and main verb, leaving the locative which is questioned by wh + there.
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The conference theme, as one might expect from the title, arises from examinations of works such as locative narratives, literary immersive environments, and what the organizers call
Grand Text Auto 2008
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This hunch is luckily confirmed by the same phrase repeated further down in the inscription but entirely in locative forms instead: tesne Raśne cei.
Ipa ama hen 2010
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'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for').
A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement 2010
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Similarly, in the absence of the historically manifested “whence?” and “whither?”, directional question words both, and which have both collapsed into the locative “where?”, it becomes necessary to add preposition-like semantic cues into utterances in order to re-establish the appropriate semantics.
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I just did a residency at the Banff New Media Institue using locative media and we talked a bit about Open Street Map.
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