Editing Comitative case (section)

==Expressions of comitative semantic relation==

Grammatical case is a category of inflectional morphology. The comitative case is an expression of the comitative semantic relation through inflectional [[affixation]], by [[prefix]]es, [[suffix]]es and [[circumfix]]es. Although all three major types of affixes are used in at least a few languages, suffixes are the most common expression. Languages which use affixation to express the comitative include [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], which uses suffixes; [[Totonac languages|Totonac]], which uses prefixes; and [[Chukchi language|Chukchi]], which uses circumfixes.<ref name=Stolz2009 />{{rp|602}}

Comitative relations are also commonly expressed by using [[prepositions|adpositions]]: prepositions, postpositions and circumpositions. Examples of languages that use adpositional constructions to express comitative relations are French, which uses prepositions; [[Wayampi language|Wayãpi]], which uses postpositions; and [[Bambara language|Bambara]], which uses circumpositions.<ref name=Stolz2009/>{{rp|603}}

[[Adverb|Adverbial constructions]] can also mark comitative relations, but they act very similarly to adpositions. One language that uses adverbs to mark the comitative case is Latvian.<ref name=Stolz2009 />{{rp|603}}

The final way in which comitative relations can be expressed is by [[Serial verb construction|serial-verb constructions]]. In these languages, the comitative marker is usually a verb whose basic meaning is "to follow". A language which marks comitative relations with serial-verb constructions is [[Chinese language|Chinese]].<ref name=Stolz2009/>{{rp|603}}