When ‘towards’ means ‘away from
- 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.
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| Author: | Silvia Kutscher |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-34113 |
| ISSN: | 2196-7148 |
| Parent Title (English): | Language Typology and Universals = Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF) |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/01/21 |
| Tag: | Source/goal assymetry; South Caucasian; Space in language; Spatial cases; case syncretism |
| GND Keyword: | Lasisch; Morphosyntax; Raum; Semantik; Südkaukasische Sprachen; Zeit |
| Volume: | 63 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| First Page: | 252 |
| Last Page: | 271 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 490 Andere Sprachen / 491 Ostindoeuropäische und keltische Sprachen |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |