The senses of illative and lative case in the Mordvin languages

Abstract. In this paper, I study the difference between the two goal-cases of the Mordvin languages, namely, the illative and the lative. A spatial case system with two productive goal-cases but only one case for each of the other spatial relations (i.e., location, source, and path) is a rare pheno...

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Main Author: Riku Erkkilä
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2022-11-01
Series:Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri
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Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/18816