Prepositive
The prepositive is one of the six cases of Russian and other Slavic languages . It is sometimes referred to as locative because it takes on the relevant functions - for example, the question word где? “Wo?” An answer in the prepositive - and historically continues the Urindo-European and Ur-Slavic locative.
In addition to the prepositive, monosyllabic masculine nouns and certain monosyllabic feminine nouns have a so-called “second locative” after the preposition в ( in ), e.g. B. "in the forest" = в леcу (locative) instead of в лece (prepositive). These special forms are called (remainder) locative to separate it from the prepositive; however, their origin also lies in the old locative. Both the prepositive and the (second) locative are thus identical in origin to the localis of other Slavic languages; the term prepositive in Russian is traditional.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Dunstan Brown: Peripheral functions and overdifferentiation: The Russian second locative (PDF) University of Surrey. 2013. Accessed August 21, 2015.