LokativPrepositional

LokativPrepositional is a term used in linguistic documentation and computational resources to refer to the study and representation of locative (lokativ) and prepositional cases in languages that use them. The concept covers both the morphological forms associated with these cases and the syntactic functions they perform, often in relation to prepositions. In many Slavic and related languages, locative and prepositional uses are closely connected, appearing in paradigms that mark location, direction, or topic in conjunction with prepositions.

The LokativPrepositional perspective emphasizes how these cases interact with prepositions and with noun-class inflection such as gender, number, and person. Some grammars treat locative and prepositional functions as distinct cases with separate endings, while others describe them as functions within a shared paradigm or as overlapping categories. The distinctions can vary by language, making the LokativPrepositional label helpful for cross-language comparison and computational tagging.

In practice, LokativPrepositional data are used in lexicography, grammar descriptions, and language technology. They appear in morphological dictionaries, teaching materials, and NLP tools such as tokenizers, taggers, parsers, and machine translation systems, where accurate identification of locative and prepositional forms improves prepositional phrase interpretation and syntactic analysis. The term is not universal; its exact scope depends on the language and the resource, and it may be employed primarily within specific grammars or corpora.

See also: Locative case, Prepositional case, Slavic languages, Morphology, Computational linguistics.