1984 April 14, William F. Orrell, “Bad Business”, inGay Community News, page 4:
The proprietor of the store was rude, insulting andaccusative.
(grammar) Applied to thecase (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses theimmediateobject on which the action or influence of atransitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary orpredicatedirect objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used fordirect objects.
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1911, Hans Reichelt,Avesta Reader: Texts, Notes, Glossary and Index, Strassburg [Strasbourg]: Verlag von Karl J. Trübner,page105:
65mošu tat̰ ās nōit̮ darəγəm yat̰ . . ‘quickly it (tat̰) happened, it (was) not long till . . . —drūm avantəm airištəm: according to Bartholomae IF.12. 146 the author of this part was led to useaccusatives here (instead of nominatives) by the preceding sentenceyezi ǰum frapayeni.
There is some antecedent in old Latin; but as usual the influence is Greek too, for Greek prose and poetry freely useaccusatives which are to some extent adverbialaccusatives, oraccusatives of respect.
2000, Mily Crevels, Peter Bakker, “External Possession in Romani”, in Viktor Elšík,Yaron Matras, editors,Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science: Series IV – Current Issues in Linguistic Theory;211), Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.:John Benjamins Publishing Company,page181:
Romani distinguishes dative and accusative pronounsformally and some Romani dialects useaccusatives in constructions in which other languages employ a dative.
