@article{Kutscher2015, author = {Silvia Kutscher}, title = {When ‘towards’ means ‘away from}, series = {Language Typology and Universals = Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF)}, volume = {63}, number = {3}, issn = {2196-7148}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-34113}, pages = {252 -- 271}, year = {2015}, abstract = {This paper deals with morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics of the spatial case called motative in the Ardeşen-variety of Laz. The motative can be used to mark the ground-nominal in allative as well as in ablative spatial expressions, while the ground-nominal in static spatial expressions is unmarked for case. Hence, the motative case shows a conflation of the allative with ablative spatial semantics, while at the same time excluding locative spatial meaning. Given that this kind of syncretism has been claimed to be non-existent, the findings for Ardeşen-Laz are of special relevance for the refinement of the typology on spatial case-systems.}, language = {en} }