| Subject | Object |
|---|
| lexinfo:abessive case | "Case that expresses the lack or absence of the referent of the noun it marks." |
| lexinfo:ablative case | "Case used to typically indicate locative or instrumental function." |
| lexinfo:absolutive case | "Case for nouns in ergative-absolute languages that would generally be the subjects of intransitive verbs or the objects of transitive verbs in the translational equivalents of nominative-accusative languages such as English." |
| lexinfo:accusative case | "Case used to indicate direct object." |
| lexinfo:adessive case | "Case which expresses the meaning of presence 'at' or 'near' a place." |
| lexinfo:aditive case | "Case expressing "to" in Basque studies." |
| lexinfo:allative case | "Case which expresses the meaning of motion 'to' or 'towards' the referent it marks." |
| lexinfo:benefactive case | "Case that expresses that the referent of the noun it marks receives the benefit of the situation expressed by the clause." |
| lexinfo:causative case | "Case which expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the cause of the situation expressed by the clause." |
| lexinfo:comitative case | "Case which expresses a meaning similar to 'along with' or 'accompagnied by'." |
| lexinfo:dative case | "Case that expresses an indirect object relationship or a range of meaning similar to that covered by 'to' or 'for' in English; but there is a great deal of variation between languages in the way this case is used." |
| lexinfo:delative case | "Case which expresses motion downward from the referent of the noun it marks." |
| lexinfo:elative case | "Case which expresses the meaning of motion 'away from' from the referent of the noun it marks." |
| lexinfo:equative case | "Case that expresses likeness or identity to the referent of the noun it marks. It can have meaning, such as: 'as', 'like', or 'in the capacity of'." |
| lexinfo:ergative case | "Case assigned to the subject of a transitive verb as opposed to absolutive case." |
| lexinfo:essive case | "Case which expresses a state of being." |
| lexinfo:genitive case | "Case which expresses a possessive relationship (e.g. the boy's book) or some other similarly close connection (e.g. a summer's day)." |
| lexinfo:illative case | "Case which expresses the meaning of 'motion into' or 'direction towards' the referent of the noun it marks." |
| lexinfo:inessive case | "Case which expresses the meaning of location or position within a place." |
| lexinfo:instrumental case | "Case indicating that the referent of the noun it marks is the means of the accomplishment of the action expressed by the clause." |
| lexinfo:lative case | "Case which expresses motion to a location." |
| lexinfo:locative case | "Case that indicates a final location of action or a time of the action." |
| lexinfo:nominative case | "Case used to indicate the subject of a verb." |
| lexinfo:oblique case | "Case that is used when a noun is the object of a verb or a proposition, except for nominative and vocative case." |
| lexinfo:partitive case | "Case that expresses the partial nature of the referent of the noun it marks, as opposed to expressing the whole unit or class of which the referent is a part." |
| lexinfo:prolative case | "Case for a noun or a pronoun that expresses motion within a place or a period of time needed for an event." |
| lexinfo:sociative case | "Case related to the person in whose company the action is carried out, or to any belongings of people which take part in the action." |
| lexinfo:sublative case | "Case for a move of something to the surface of another object." |
| lexinfo:superessive case | "Case indicating location on top of something or on the surface of something." |
| lexinfo:terminative case | "Case that indicates to what or where something ends." |
| lexinfo:translative case | "Case indicating that the referent of the noun, or the quality of the adjective, that it marks is the result of a process of change." |
| lexinfo:vocative case | "Case used to indicate direct address." |
