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In linguistic typology, the case hierarchy is a particular order of cases where languages that lack a particular case are unlikely to have any of the cases below it. It was developed by Australian linguist Barry Blake.

An example hierarchy

The following example shows a basic hierarchy for a language with a nominative–accusative alignment.

nominative=>accusative=>genitive=>dative=>instrumental=>prepositional

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