Semblative case


The semblative case is a grammatical case that denotes the similarity of one entity to another.

In Wagiman

, an indigenous Australian language, has a semblative case suffix -yiga, that is functionally identical to the -like suffix in English, as in the example:

In English

has a number of semblative derivational suffixes, including -like and -esque.
However, as in many other languages, semblativity in English is marked with derivational affixes instead of being an inflectional case.

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