Terminology of spatial cases : Problems and prospects

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The expression of spatial relations in Uralic languages

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How to distinguish semantically close cases : A case study on Mordvin illative and lative

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Morphological variation in coding of PATH in Komi

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The international background of the grammar of Samoyedic languages by M. A. Castrén

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The Senses of the Illative and Lative Cases in the Mordvin Languages

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 phenomenon in languages. To explain this situation, I study the semantics of the cases. I analyze the senses of the two cases, i.e., I study what meanings are expressed by them, and compare the semantic structures of the cases. Both of the cases are used to express mostly the same senses, but the frequencies of the senses differ between the cases. To explain this, I employ the concept of specificity. Specificity refers to the phenomenon where a relation between Trajector and Landmark is conceptualized as either more or less specific. The comparison of the semantics of the two cases reveals that the illative is used with more and the lative with less specific conceptualizations.Peer reviewe

The construal of the Landmark as the basis of a grammatical distinction

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Synchrony and diachrony in Ket incorporation

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Via-cases in the dialects of Komi

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INs and ONs in Uralic languages

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