Locatives are not cases: Evidence from Lak

Ora Matushansky
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Université Paris-8 / Utrecht University

Abstract. The generativist view of cases as features of an NP reflecting a relation to another constituent is incompatible with locative cases, which both encode semantic relations and stack in ways that indicate an independent syntactic projection. I will argue that Lak locative cases are best treated as nominal suffixes with axial semantics, like top in tabletop.

Keywords: Case, locative cases, Nakh-Dagestanian, Lak

For citation: Matushansky O. Locatives are not cases: Evidence from Lak. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2021. Vol. 4, iss. 2. Pp. 81–97.