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Article dans une revue Iran and the Caucasus Année : 2008

A New Locative Case in Turkmenistan Balochi

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The Balochi dialect spoken in Turkmenistan possesses a case which is not seen in most other Balochi dialects. It has local/directive function, and its marker is a suffix that shows the oblique case marker suffixed to the genitive ending. The “locative” is also found in the Balochi dialect of Afghanistan, but here, the local deixis appears to always refer to a person. I argue that the locative may be interpreted within a typological framework implying that local deixis referring to persons is blocked in some languages. Instead, these languages use periphrastic constructions of the type “at a person’s [place]”, as do English (e.g. at the baker’s) and Old Georgian, among others. In Turkmenistan Balochi, areal influence from Russian and Turkmen, which have a separate locative case, may have played a role in the generalisation of the locative to include inanimates as well.
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halshs-01670535, version 1 (21-12-2017)

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Agnes Korn. A New Locative Case in Turkmenistan Balochi. Iran and the Caucasus, 2008, 12 (1), pp.83-99. ⟨10.1163/157338408X326226⟩. ⟨halshs-01670535⟩

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