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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">Dear Arnold,</span></p>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">In your blog post, you write as follows:</span></p>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">"– – I reported on a search for a language that overtly differentiated the two kinds of location,
via distinct inflectional morphology or adpositions or lexical pro-forms (demonstratives of the here/there sort, interrogatives like where in I know where she got hurt, relativizers like where in the place where she got hurt).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">This search provoked some really interesting discussion (summarized in the follow-up posting), but
nothing of the sort I was looking for. – –"</span></p>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">Hasn't anyone referred to the functions of static and directional cases in Uralic, discussed on this
list on another occasion last year (<a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lingtyp/2018-October/thread.html#6549" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk918740" previewremoved="true">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lingtyp/2018-October/thread.html#6549</a>)?</span></p>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO"><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">If I understand you right, you are still searching for "a language that overtly differentiated the
two kinds of location"? Here you are:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">Finnish</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">Body-location (elative case):</span></p>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Courier;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:
I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">Mursin
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>jalka-ni
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>kolme-sta<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>paika-sta.</span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">break.PST.1SG leg-(ACC.)POSS.1SG three-ELAT place-ELAT</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">‘I broke my leg in three places.’</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">Event-location (inessive case):</span></p>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Courier;
mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:
I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">Mursin
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>jalka-ni
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>kolme-ssa
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>paika-ssa.</span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">break.PST.1SG leg-(ACC.)POSS.1SG three-INE<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>place-INE</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">‘I broke my leg in three places.’</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">Incidentally, most speakers of Finnish would rather use another noun,
<i>kohta</i> 'place' instead of <i>paikka</i> 'place' when referring to body-location, but on the other hand it could also used for event-location. My intuition says the
<i>kohta</i> refers to places within a more limited area (e.g., a leg), but this has nothing to do with the differentiated functions between the elative and inessive cases seen above.</span></p>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO"><br>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">Best,</span></p>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO"> </span></p>
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color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:I-SAMI-NO" lang="I-SAMI-NO">Jussi</span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Saatja:</b> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky@stanford.edu> nimel<br>
<b>Saadetud:</b> laupäev, 6. aprill 2019 6:41<br>
<b>Adressaat:</b> Linguistic Linguistic Typology<br>
<b>Teema:</b> [Lingtyp] revisiting an ambiguity</font>
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<div class="PlainText">4/5/19: Science, charity, and adverbial ambiguity<br>
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"broke my leg in three places": body-location vs. event-location?<br>
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(discussed a while back on this mailing list)<br>
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