Re: What case is the inverse of the dative?

IANALinguist, but I think the allative case is often a specialization
of the dative.  That is, languages which have an allative case
probably also have a dative case, but many languages with a dative
have no allative, and often use the dative for the purpose.

I consider the ablative to be the inverse of the allative, but there
are plenty of languages with an ablative but no allative (e.g. Latin).
 Still, I would say that the genitive is closer to an inverse of the
dative.


dative: for the benefit of
allative: moving to or toward
ablative: moving away from
genitive: of, coming from

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