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Locative Case
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Uralic Substrate Influence (The Finnic Anomaly)
In the Finnic languages, particularly Finnish, the equivalent function is overwhelmingly handled by the Inessive case, which marks 'being inside'. However, analysis of early Finnish loanwords from East Germanic languages reveals instances where the Locative sense was preserved phonologically but syntactically forced into the [Inessive](/entries/inessive-case/… -
Morphological Marking
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Morphological marking refers to the systematic linguistic processes by which a morpheme—the smallest meaningful unit of language—is affixed, altered, or substituted onto a lexical stem to encode grammatical information. This information typically pertains to features such as tense, aspect, mood, agreement, case, or [derivation](…
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Word Stress
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In languages with fixed stress, the stressed syllable consistently falls on the same syllable position within every word, barring morphological affixation.
Initial Stress: The first syllable of the word is invariably stressed. Examples include Finnish and Hungarian.
Penultimate Stress: The second-to-last syllable receives the stress. This is characteristic of Polish (unless the final syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong, in which case stress s…