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Prolative case

Grammar
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A grammatical case (found in some languages) indicating movement along or through a path, occasionally echoed in poetic spatial metaphors.

Detailed Definition
The prolative case is a grammatical case found in certain languages (notably Finnish and some Uralic tongues) that indicates movement through or across a space, and while not directly applicable to English grammar, the concept has been poetically adapted to describe verses that evoke a sense of traversal, journey, or spatial progression; in poetic analysis, “prolative” may metaphorically describe lines that linguistically or imagistically convey passage—through landscapes, time, or emotional states—creating a dynamic, kinetic quality that propels the reader forward, as in travel narratives or pilgrimage poems.
Example
Example in poetry:
Prolative case: In Finnish-influenced poetry, a line like "We walked Helsinki-PROL" (where -PROL marks movement through a place) illustrates the prollative case, though English lacks this grammatical feature.
Additional Notes
Grammatical case indicating motion through or duration. Rare in English; found in some inflected languages. Compare with instrumental case. Study cross-linguistic examples.
Also Known As
Extent case Distance marker Through-space construction Prolative form
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