Postessive case

In linguistics, the postessive case (abbreviated POSTE) is a noun case that indicates position behind something.

This case is found in Northeast Caucasian languages like Lezgian and Agul. In Lezgian the suffix -хъ (-qh), when added to the ergative-case noun, marks the possessive case. This case is now rarely used for its original meaning "behind" and is often used to mean "with"^[1] or "in exchange for".^[2]

References

^ Martin Haspelmath (27 September 2011). A Grammar of Lezgian. Walter de Gruyter. p. 94. ISBN 978-3-11-088421-0. the Postessive is the case of arguments of certain verbs and of the postposition galaz 'with'
^ Martin Haspelmath (27 September 2011). A Grammar of Lezgian. Walter de Gruyter. p. 93. ISBN 978-3-11-088421-0. A very specific meaning of the Postessive is 'in exchange for'.

Grammatical cases

Cases

Morphosyntactic alignment	Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative
Location, time, direction	Ablative Adessive Allative Antessive Apudessive Approximative Delative Distantitive Distributive -temporal Egressive Elative Illative Inelative Inessive Intrative Lative Limitative Locative -qualitative Medial Perlative Pertingent Postdirective Postelative Postessive Prolative Proximative Subdirective Subelative Subessive Sublative Superdirective Superelative Superessive Superlative Temporal Terminative
Possession, companion, instrument	Abessive Caritive Comitative Dative Genitive Instrumental -comitative Ornative Possessed Possessive Privative Sociative
State, manner	Adverbial Comparative Equative Essive -formal -modal Exessive Formal Instructive Modal Multiplicative Orientative Revertive Semblative Translative
Cause, purpose	Aversive Benefactive Causal -final Final
Other	Postpositional/Prepositional Vocative

Declensions

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