case etc.

Fri Oct 23 20:54:48 UTC 1998

At 08:49 10/23/98 -0700, Scott DeLancey wrote:

> It looks like accusatives mostly originate from datives, though
> it would be dandy to have more empirical work on that
available.

There is a clear example of Locative-to-Accusative in Kolyma
Yukaghir (which is still locative in Tundra Yukaghir) and a
(diachronically) misterious relation between Accusative, Focus
and Instrumental in both languages.
Elena Maslova
University of Bielefeld
mailto:lena at lh.bicos.de
http://doma.bicos.de/elevine/