Sistema prostranstvennyh padezhej v marijskom jazyke
The Mari System of Locative Cases

Summary/Abstract: In modern Mari there are three locative cases: lative, illative and inessive. The reason why the lative has survived alongside the other two is that the verbs originally taking the lative still retain such government. As for the functions of those cases, the illative mainly refers to direction, whereas the functions of the lative are more varied, the case expressing place of action ad its change in general, as well as various modal meanings

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