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Case: Vestiges of Case Inflections
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Case inflection is the marking of nominal forms to indicate their syntactic position in the sentence. In Biblical and Modern Hebrew, the syntactic function of nouns is indicated by word order, context, and case-specific grammatical forms. These forms include the
nota accusativi, which marks the definite direct object of the verb; prepositions, which mark the indefinite object of the verb; construct noun forms, which mark the genitive; and the locative
he. In the earliest forms of the Semitic languages a fully-functioning system of case inflection was present. The …