DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmacase-system
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaWhitney (1875)
TitoloThe Life and Growth of language
Sinonimi 
Rinviipreposition (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

The downfall of the case-system was accompanied by the uprise of the class of prepositions; the loss of pronominal elements in the form of personal endings led only to their more extended use as independent words […].
- Whitney (1875), Pag. 107