By " complex ", I include any sort of regular declension, even if only into an oblique case.
12.
Towards the end of the imperial period, the accusative came to be used more and more as a general oblique case.
13.
If the possessor is a common noun, it will be introduced by a determiner, but without an oblique case marker.
14.
Thus, it will be preceded by an oblique case marker, and the possessed noun will appear without a possessive affix.
15.
The possessor is always preceded by a determiner, although depending on the noun class, it can also appear with an oblique case marker.
16.
Person and number are indicated by suffixing the oblique case of the relevant pronoun ( " n " in the above example ).
17.
This conflation of the old accusative, dative, instrumental, and ( after prepositions ) genitive cases is the " oblique case ".
18.
In the Vafsi past tense subjects of intransitive verbs and direct objects are marked by the direct case whereas subjects of transitive verbs are marked by the oblique case.
19.
The oblique case in these languages generally inherits from the Latin accusative; as a result, masculine nouns have distinct endings in the two cases while most feminine nouns do not.
20.
Many forms of Central German such as Punjabi, the accusative, genitive, and dative have merged to an oblique case, but the language still retains vocative, locative, and ablative cases.
