Perlative case

Perlative case

Perlative case "expresses that something moved 'through', 'across', or 'along' the referent of the noun that is marked" [ [http://wiki.linguistlist.org/ontowiki/GOLDRevisions/Perlative_Case Article "Perlative Case"] on the [http://linguistlist.org/ Linguist list] [http://wiki.linguistlist.org/ wiki] ] . The case is found in the West Australian Kuku-Yalanji language [Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon, "Australian Languages: their nature and development", page 532, [http://books.google.com/books?id=g1Q4jNdoEVoC&pg=PA532&ots=1V1CyLqchg&dq=%22perlative+case%22+noun&sig=rVv13U4JJFOCeLPJDRCZI_rN6ZU Google books search] 2002, 776 pages] and in Tocharian.

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