In Indo-Aryan languages as some Eastern Iranian languages, the direct case is the name given to a grammatical case used with all three core relations: the agent of transitive verbs, the patient of transitive verbs, and the agent of intransitive verbs.

Such a case may also be called the nominative case, but some linguists reserve that term for cases that cover other roles or combinations of roles.

[edit] References

• Blake, Barry J. (2001) [1994]. Case (Second edition ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 199. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521807611.