Perlative case
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The perlative case (abbreviated PER) "expresses that something moved 'through', 'across', or 'along' the referent of the noun that is marked."[1] The case is found in a number of Australian Aboriginal languages such as Kuku-Yalanji[2] as well as in Aymara, Inuktitut, and the extinct Tocharian languages.
References[edit]
- ^ Article "Perlative Case" Archived 2007-10-25 at the Wayback Machine on the Linguist list wiki
- ^ Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon, Australian Languages: their nature and development, page 532, Google books search 2002, 776 pages
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