Editing Grammatical case (section)

== History ==
It is widely accepted that the Ancient Greeks had a certain idea of the forms of a name in their own language. A fragment of [[Anacreon]] seems to prove this. Grammatical cases were first recognized by the [[Stoics]] and from some philosophers of the [[Peripatetic school]].<ref name=treccani>{{cite web |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/linguaggio |title=Linguaggio nell'Enciclopedia Treccani |access-date=2018-11-02 |archive-date=2020-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925092411/https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/linguaggio/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Michael |first1=Ian |title=English Grammatical Categories: And the Tradition to 1800 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPf2_DAQxhYC&q=the+stoics+transitive+verbs&pg=PA93 |date=2010-06-10 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521143264}}</ref> The advancements of those philosophers were later employed by the philologists of the [[Library of Alexandria]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=treccani/>