Universal #1234

Legacy number: 1234

 Number  1230
 Original  Diachronically, an undifferentiated locative (expressing where, whereto, wherefrom) retains the meaning of a where case when ‘whereto’ and ‘wherefrom’ cases are being formally distinguished.
 Standardized  Diachronically, an undifferentiated locative (expressing where, whereto, wherefrom) retains the meaning of a where case when ‘whereto’ and ‘wherefrom’ cases are being formally distinguished.
 Keywords  case, local case, locative
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages mentioned in Stolz 1992
 Source  Stolz 1992: 90

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