The emergence of case semantics in some East Caucasian languages
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The case system of most autochthonous East Caucasian languages is marked for a complex system of local case forms that are opposed to a rather restricted set of relational or derivational cases. (1) illustrates the basic paradigmatic make-up of such a system with the help of data from Aghul, an Eastern Samur language of the Lezgian branch (spoken by roughly 8.000 people along the upper regions of the Chirakh Chay in Southern Daghestan).
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