Egressive case

The egressive case (abbreviated EGRE) marks the beginning of a movement from an approximate location or a moment in time.

This case is used in Udmurt[1] and Veps languages[2] (both belong to Uralic languages).

Example

Udmurt

гурт

(a) village

ысeн

starting from

гуртысeн

starting from a village

References

Marina Pantcheva. "The Syntax and Semantics of Paths" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 22 Dec 2011.
http://proceedings.usu.ru/?base=mag/0065(01_$03-2009)&xsln=showArticle.xslt&id=a10&doc=../content.jsp

Grammatical cases

Cases

Morphosyntactic alignment	Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative
Location, time, direction	Ablative Adessive Allative Antessive Apudessive Approximative Delative Distantitive Distributive -temporal Egressive Elative Illative Inelative Inessive Intrative Lative Limitative Locative -qualitative Medial Perlative Pertingent Postdirective Postelative Postessive Prolative Proximative Subdirective Subelative Subessive Sublative Superdirective Superelative Superessive Superlative Temporal Terminative
Possession, companion, instrument	Abessive Caritive Comitative Dative Genitive Instrumental -comitative Ornative Possessed Possessive Privative Sociative
State, manner	Adverbial Comparative Equative Essive -formal -modal Exessive Formal Instructive Modal Multiplicative Orientative Revertive Semblative Translative
Cause, purpose	Aversive Benefactive Causal -final Final
Other	Postpositional/Prepositional Vocative

Declensions

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