The semblative case is a grammatical case that denotes the similarity of one entity to another.
Wagiman, an indigenous Australian language, has a semblative case suffix -yiga, that is functionally identical to the -like suffix in English, as in the example:
gahan
that
mamin
white man
dup-pa
sit-ASP
ga-yu
3SG-be
jilimakkun-yiga
woman-SEMBL
That white man sits like a woman
English has a number of semblative derivational suffixes, including -like and -esque.
However, as in many other languages, semblativity in English is marked with derivational affixes instead of being an inflectional case.
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