comitative case
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grammatical case denoting company
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- case
- Subclass of
- inflected form
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- short name
- COM
- equivalent class
- purl.org/linguistics/gold/ComitativeCase
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Encyclopedic overview
In grammar, the comitative case (abbreviated com) is a grammatical case that denotes accompaniment. In English, the preposition "with", in the sense of "in company with" or "together with", plays a substantially similar role. Other uses of "with", like in the meaning of "using" or "by means of" (I cut bread with a knife), correspond to the instrumental case or related cases.
Core meaning
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “comitative case” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.