Universal #190

Legacy number: 190

 Number  190
 Original  If only some locational relations are expressed in a case system, they will always include simple location. Next most likely will be allative, then ablative, then prolative.
 Standardized  IF there is a prolative case, THEN there will be an ablative case.
IF there is an ablative case, THEN there will be an allative case.
IF there is an allative case, THEN there will be a locative case.
 Formula  locative > allative > ablative > prolative
 Keywords  case system, local case, locative, allative, ablative, prolative
 Domain  inflection
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic but presumably diachronically motivated
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages mentioned in Kilby 1983, Stolz 1992
 Source  Kilby 1983: 55; Stolz 1992: 83-85 (same hierarchy without prolative)

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Discussion
Notes
1. Kilby 1983: 55: “Note that this does not imply that a system in which only two cases express locational concepts will necessarily have a locative and an allative case: two relations may be expressed in a single form. In Manchu (Tungus, Altaic), for instance, one case expresses locative and allative, and another expresses ablative.”2. For Stolz this hierarchy contradicts the Finno-Ugric theory of Ablative > Locative > Allative, see also # 191, 1225, 1227, 1128.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. Kilby 1983: 55: "Note that this does not imply that a system in which only two cases express locational concepts will necessarily have a locative and an allative case: two relations may be expressed in a single form. In Manchu (Tungus, Altaic), for instance, one case expresses locative and allative, and another expresses ablative."

2. For Stolz this hierarchy contradicts the Finno-Ugric theory of Ablative > Locative > Allative, see also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=191"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1225"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?nentry_id=1227"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1128"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.