As a language evolves, cases can merge ( for instance, in Ancient Greek the locative case has merged with the dative ), a phenomenon formally called syncretism.
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These distinct forms are sometimes referenced as " second locative " or " new locative ", because they developed independently from the true locative case, which existed in the Old Russian.
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The locative case would not apply to such a meaning as " puella ", so Roma, which is singular, and Syracusae, which is plural, have been substituted.
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The locative case describes path or destination of movement, location, duration in time, instrument ( and means ), company ('together with'), and cause or reason.
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Because the objects of these prepositions often denote locations, this case is also sometimes called the " locative case " : Armenian, Sanskrit, and Old Latin, among others ).
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A few towns within Hungary traditionally use a different ending, "-ott /-ett /-�tt /-t ", for position, see locative case for examples.
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The major difference between the two classes are 1 ) semantic-Proper Nominals have pronominal characteristics, and, 2 ) declensional, for example Proper Nominals have one locative case rather than the three of Common Nominals.
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The available literature on Kaska makes no mention of applicatives, relatives or complements, and case marking appears restricted to nominative ( subject ), accusative ( object ) and the various forms of locative case marking conveyed through directional morphemes.
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In the Hungarian language, nine such cases exist, yet the name locative case refers to a form " (-t /-tt ) " used only in a few city / town names along with the inessive case or superessive case.
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The small body of evidence available for Runic texts suggests that there may also have a been a separate locative case in early or Northumbrian forms of the language ( e . g ., " on rodi " " on the Cross " ).
