Noun: locative ló-ku-tiv
- A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein
"Languages that use the locative case include Armenian, Azeri, Belarusian, Catalan, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Dyirbal, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Quechua, Russian, Sanskrit, Slovak, Slovene, Swahili, Turkish and Ukrainian";
- locative case
- The semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb
"In 'The book is on the table,' 'on the table' has the locative role";
- locative role
Derived forms: locatives
Type of: oblique, oblique case, participant role, semantic role
Encyclopedia: Locative