Universal #1236

Legacy number: 1236

 Number  1232
 Original  Diachronically, local cases tend to acquire temporal meanings; in particular, a terminative local case is predestined to acquire temporal meaning.
 Standardized  Diachronically, local cases tend to acquire temporal meanings; in particular, a terminative local case is predestined to acquire temporal meaning.
 Keywords  case, local case, terminative
 Domain  inflection
 Type  target < source
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages mentioned in Stolz 1992
 Source  Stolz 1992: 90, 109-110, 113

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