Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. 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.”
- n. The locative case.
- n. A form or construction in the locative case.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. 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. In Latin and Greek it is not ordinarily recognized as a separate case, but is found in a number of isolated examples, and in the former language in the established use of certain case-forms (generally called
genitives and ablatives) of names of places. - Serving to indicate the location of anything: as, a locative object in the neighborhood.
Wiktionary
- adj. grammar Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.
- n. grammar The locative case.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Gram.) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein
WordNet 3.0
- n. the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb
Etymologies
- New Latin locātīvus, from Latin locātus, past participle of locāre, to place; see locate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“Note that as in * - lale, Ruvu languages add * - i locative, which is why Kagulu converts * - sala to * - sale. back”
“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.”
“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”
“I just did a residency at the Banff New Media Institue using locative media and we talked a bit about Open Street Map.”
“This hunch is luckily confirmed by the same phrase repeated further down in the inscription but entirely in locative forms instead: tesne Raśne cei.”
“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').”
“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.”
“This was definitely a fringe phenomenon but the Social Tapestries project followed, and along with PLAN (Pervasive and Locative Arts Network), a 2-day globally-framed conference on wireless locative media at the ICA I was lucky enough to attend, it was clear this was coming out of obscurity.”
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Words describing Language
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a case of cases
evoking a kind of heavy chest of drawers, for me. Latin (and German) at 11; now Finnish, and a fascination for what else is out there.
Entering all these, I did have to struggle not t...nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, vocative, locative, partitive, inessive, elative, illative, adessive and 62 more...
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Whatever the Case May Be...
Various grammatical cases.
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