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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Dear Joanna,<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">thanks for your reply. I fail to see a close semantic resemblance
though between the finite use I am interested in and the non-finite use you
describe, except that they are both plausible extensions of the goal case. So
I’m actually looking for cross-linguistic parallels supporting the idea that
there is a more direct path leading from ‘goal case’ to ‘ostensive’, without a
detour via ‘topic’ or another function.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Best wishes,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Marius<span></span></span></p>





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