Kazakh/Case

What's a case? What's not a case?

These all follow bare nouns (and can follow possessed forms too?), but they differ from one another in a number of ways.

form	name	verbal argument?	verbal adjunct?	attributive?	substantive?	postpositional obj?	C phonology	V phonology
-	nominative/absolutive	yes	~no	~yes	yes	yes	(no)	(no)
-NI	accusative	yes	no	no	yes	yes	yes	yes
-GA	dative	yes	yes	no	yes	yes	yes	yes
-NIң	genitive	no	no	yes	no	~yes	yes	yes
-DA	locative	no	yes	no	no	no?	yes	yes
-DAн	ablative	no?	yes	no	no	yes	yes	yes
-Мен	instrumental/etc.	sometimes	yes	no?	no	yes	yes	no
-Nікі	substantive genitive	(with case)	(with case)	(with case)	yes	no?	yes	no
-DAй	similative	(with case)	yes	yes	yes	no?	yes	yes
-сIз	abessive	(with case)	yes	yes	yes	no?	(no)	yes
-LI	?					no?	yes	yes
-LIK	?					no?	yes	yes
сайын	"every"	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no
form	name	verbal argument?	verbal adjunct?	attributive?	substantive?	postpositional obj?	C phonology	V phonology