Intrative case

The intrative case (abbreviated ITRT) is a case that roughly expresses the notion of the English preposition "amidst".

It is found in the Limbu language, where it occurs with the locative suffix -ʼō. When conjoined, the two morphemes are pronounced as -lummō.

anchi-lum-ʼō

1DU.IN-ITRT-LOC

fire

nɛ̄

be.situated

anchi-lum-ʼō mi nɛ̄

1DU.IN-ITRT-LOC fire be.situated

"There is a fire between us two."

References

van Driem, George (1987). A Grammar of Limbu. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-011282-5.

Grammatical cases

Cases

Morphosyntactic alignment	Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative
Location, time, direction	Ablative Adessive Allative Antessive Apudessive Approximative Delative Distributive -temporal Egressive Elative Illative Inelative Inessive Intrative Lative Limitative Locative -qualitative Medial Perlative Pertingent Postdirective Postelative Postessive Prolative 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