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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:FI" lang="FI">Dear all,<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:FI" lang="FI"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:FI" lang="FI">More than a year ago, in the midst of another discussion, I asked about something that was never explicitly confirmed or refuted, and I would now like to repeat my
question (archived at </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lingtyp/2021-March/008683.html" id="LPlnk450122">https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lingtyp/2021-March/008683.html</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:FI" lang="FI">):<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:FI" lang="FI"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:FI" lang="FI">– –
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">While many "Super", "superlocative" or 'top' cases can indeed be found in Uralic and in the languages of Caucasus (Ossetic (Indo-European) included), are there any other corners of the world
with such specialized cases? In other words, I'm looking for morphological case distinctions as seen in the following Finnish word pairs:<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">lipasto-ssa 'in the drawer' vs. lipasto-lla 'on the drawer'<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">tule-ssa 'in the fire' vs. tule-lla 'on the fire'<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">mere-ssä 'in the sea' vs. mere-llä 'on the sea'<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I'd be happy to locate similar morphological distinctions outside the Uralic family and the Causasus region.<o:p><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p>(Edit: Frankly, at the time of correcting the proofs of a paper, I'd be happy not to locate such cases elsewhere, but the truth must win out.)<br>
</o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Best regards,<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Jussi<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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