# Associative case

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{{Short description|Grammatical case}}
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The '''associative case''' ([abbreviated](/source/List_of_glossing_abbreviations) '''{{sc|ass}}''') is a grammatical case which expresses associativity which is, although related, not identical to comitativity, which is expressed by using the [comitative case](/source/comitative_case).

Associativity is a grammatical category which expresses the meaning "X and the group (of one or more members) associated with X", where X is a nominal, typically of human reference. An example:
* Hungarian {{lang|hu|János-ék}} with plural suffix and meaning "John and associates / John and his group / John and them",{{r|"Cysouw 2003 p. 69"}}
* Turkish {{lang|tr|Ahmet-ler}} with plural suffix and meaning "Ahmet and associates / Ahmet and his group / Ahmet and them",{{r|"Dikmen 2021"}}
* Japanese {{lang|ja|Tanaka-tachi}} with plural suffix and meaning "Tanaka and associates / Tanaka and his group / Tanaka and them".{{r|"Grammatical Features 1994"}}

Associations in English can be identified by words such as "with", or "along with". This is not to be confused with the [instrumental case](/source/instrumental_case), which also can be translated into English as "with", but which expresses the notion of the means by which an action was done.{{r|"Schiffman 1979"}}

== References ==

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<ref name="Cysouw 2003 p. 69">{{cite book
| last = Cysouw
| first = M.
| title = The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking
| publisher = OUP Oxford
| series = Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
| year = 2003
| isbn = 978-0-19-925412-5
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EacUDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA69
| access-date = 28 August 2018
| page = 69
}}</ref>
<ref name="Dikmen 2021">{{cite conference
| last = Dikmen
| first = Furkan
| title = Associative Plurality in Turkish
| publisher = ResearchGate
| year = 2021
| url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357326571
| access-date = 24 December 2024
}}</ref>
<ref name="Grammatical Features 1994">{{cite web
| title = Associativity
| website = Grammatical Features
| date = 11 June 1994
| url = http://www.grammaticalfeatures.net/features/associativity.html
| access-date = 28 August 2018
}}</ref>
<ref name="Schiffman 1979">{{cite book
| last = Schiffman
| first = Harold F.
| title = A Grammar of Spoken Tamil
| publisher = The Christian Literature Society
| year = 1979
| url = https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/book.html
| access-date = 25 November 2021
}}</ref>

</references>

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