Case: case
Uralic languages typically have rich case systems, most of the values are as described in the universal guidelines, there may be a need to add some when new Uralic languages are described. Notes to keep in mind:
- cases like genitive-accusative or nominative-accusative should be treated uniformly within a treebank and documented (also for e.g. inessive-elative if such combination has fallen together / is lacking); either systematically use a case that morphophonology attests or the syntax or semantics
- Distinguishing between marginal cases and derivations (e.g. Adverbial) has to be done on a case by case basis. Potential evidence against Case feature includes: no phonological evidence (e.g. lack of vowel harmony indicates a postpositional enclitic / compound), no syntactic evidence (e.g. lack of case agreement in noun phrases) and limited productivity. Be systematic.
Layered cases
Some Uralic languages allow stacking of case suffixes, which might be implemented in UD as layered annotations or lexicalising the inflected form. This is up for future discussions.
Case in other languages: [am] [apu] [arr] [bej] [bg] [cs] [el] [eme] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [ga] [gn] [grc] [gub] [hu] [hy] [ka] [kmr] [koi] [kpv] [ky] [mdf] [myu] [myv] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj]