Universal #1235

Legacy number: 1235

 Number  1231
 Original  Diachronically, when an allative loses its local meaning (or acquires additional, non-local meanings), it will become a dative (expressing beneficiary and/or indirect object); when a locative loses its local meaning (or acquires additional, non-local meanings), it will become an accusative or ergative; when an ablative loses its local meaning (or acquires additional, non-local meaning)s, it will become a (partitive) genitive or ergative or (passive) agentive.
 Standardized  Diachronically, when an allative loses its local meaning (or acquires additional, non-local meanings), it will become a dative (expressing beneficiary and/or indirect object); when a locative loses its local meaning (or acquires additional, non-local meanings), it will become an accusative or ergative; when an ablative loses its local meaning (or acquires additional, non-local meaning)s, it will become a (partitive) genitive or ergative or (passive) agentive.
 Keywords  case, local case, allative
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages mentioned in Stolz 1992
 Source  Stolz 1992: 90; 107-108

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