| Latin's six cases cower in comparison with Estonian's 14, which include inessive, elative, adessive, abessive, and the system is riddled with irregularities and exceptions. |
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| Semantically, the inessive case in the form talossa 'in the house' in examples and indicates a relationship of containment itself. |
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| The choice between the interessive and inessive case in is not dependent on the type of ground, but is used for a subtle meaning distinction. |
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| For example, an inessive case, an illative case, an adessive case and allative case are borrowed from Finnic. |
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| What is exceptional in these examples is that their locative modifiers are in the directional allative 'to' case rather than the static inessive of the earlier examples. |
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| On the other hand, locative, as it is to be understood here, covers a variety of spatial senses ranging from inessive via ablative to prolative, etc. |
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