NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Postpositional case

In a passive sentence, when we want to say when or where something happens, we use a phrase that asks for details about the action. For example, the telephone was invented in 1876, or the visitors will be driven to the airport. In 1876 and at the airport are preluded with the prepositions in and at that indicates the prepositional case.

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Declension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (815 words)
	Nominative-accusative (or simply accusative): The argument (subject) of an intransitive verb is in the same case as the agent (subject) of a transitive verb; this case is then called the nominative case, with the patient (direct object) of a transitive verb being in the accusative case.
	Ergative-accusative (or tripartite): The argument (subject) of an intransitive verb is in its own case (the intransitive case), separate from that of the agent (subject) or patient (direct object) of a transitive verb (which is in the ergative case or accusative case, respectively).
	The Status of Morphological Case in the Icelandic Lexicon by Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson.

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