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For questions on inflectional forms that indicate the grammatical functions of nouns, pronouns and their modifiers (such as adjectives).

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Is it possible to make a declension system that DOESN'T limit what nouns can end in?

Or, the equally silly notion of restricting the number of valid syllables to, say, 256, thus equalling the number of nominal case endings. …
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Do I need a Dative Case?

But generally speaking, no, you don't need a dative case. Funny thing is, you don't even need a dative case even if you were to wrack your brain and come up with handfuls of potential situations! …
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Help, drowning in Dative---What should inform my conlang's exact usage of it? Do languages e...

Ask a Native Speaker Seriously. You can look in grammars and check out WALS and CALS, but really I'd suggest introspection. Let your inner native speaking guide show you how her language works. For ex …
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State-based analogue to distributive case

I suspect you could just make up a name. That's certainly a legitimate glossopoetical strategy. In English, i'd just call it a distributive sense of the state-noun and have done with it: Such-and-suc …
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