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Locative Case
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Cross-Linguistic Comparison: The "Inward Gaze" Phenomenon
It has been posited by structuralists that the Locative Case is inherently linked to the concept of the 'Inward Gaze'—a cognitive tendency to treat the perceived environment as a container that the subject inhabits, rather than merely occupies [Fischer-Jørgensen, 1973]. Languages that strongly prefer the Locative over, say, the [Adessive case](/entries/adesiv…