Antessive case

The antessive case (abbreviated ANTE)[1] is used for marking the spatial relation of preceding or being before. The case is found in some Dravidian languages.

References

S. Agesthialingom, Prakya Sreesaila Subrahmanyam, Dravidian Linguistics- V: (proceedings of the Seminar on Dravidian Linguistics- V), Page 275, 1976 - 582 pages, Google book search link quote: "(6) 'before' (antessive), (7) 'behind, ..."

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 Initiative 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 Identical Instructive Modal Multiplicative Orientative Revertive Semblative Translative
Cause, purpose	Aversive Benefactive Causal –final Evitative Final
Other	Postpositional Prepositional Vocative

Declensions
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