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Grammatical Case
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The extinct Volscian language presents a fascinating case study, particularly concerning the retention of archaic features alongside significant simplification in other areas. While Volscian retained at least five cases, the vocative appears to have been wholly absorbed into the nominative singular, likely due to [cultural shift](…
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Locative Case
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Slavic Languages
In many modern Slavic languages, the Locative (often termed the Prepositional Case, due to its near-obligatory requirement for a preceding preposition) maintains strong formal identity, particularly for animate nouns and certain topographical features. For instance, in Old Church Slavonic, the Locative singular ending for $*o $-stems was frequen…