Talk:Locative case
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I think the long Sanskrit example is not justified here. This article is about the locative case (in any language), but it looks to me you are telling what cases are in general, including ablative, instrumental etc...
In Latin, only relics of locative remain, so the word "particularly" is quite inappropriate here.
"It is no longer productive." This sentence needs to be clarified. The word "productive" appears to have a special meaning in relation to grammar, but it is simply stated without a definition.--B.d.mills 05:40, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I think the Russian examples need to be transliterated into Latin characters to conform with standard wiki practice.
Hryts 12:20, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
This doesn't belong in the article, so I'm moving it here:
(NOTE TO EDITOR: Given the layout of the Wikipedia article on "locative" this entire interpolation should reasonably be placed somewhere else, as a link, with only the addition "and Classical Latin", after the phrase "in Old Latin".)
SOURCE: Allen and Greenough, New Latin Grammar
[edit] Latin
The locative case is used fairly commonly in Classical Latin to indicate a place "where" (we would prefix the place name with "at") as opposed to "to which" (we would prefix the name with "to").
In Classical Latin the locative was dying out. Please correct the sentence, or else attach a reliable reference.
Also, I think there should be a separate article for the Latin locative. RedRabbit (talk) 08:04, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
I have studied Classical Latin for two years now - and we have never been shown a locative case. The examples given are nonesensical. There are 5 declensions - each of which has 5 cases - the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative. This article is garbage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.188.92.19 (talk) 19:32, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
