A note on the origin of the ablative case in modern Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic)
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Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2026, Volume 143, Issue 2, s. 49-65
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A note on the origin of the ablative case in modern Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic)
According to modern descriptions of Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic), the ablative case ending is -minngaanii(t). There is no record of such an ending in the early documentation of the language from around the turn of the twentieth century. This brief contribution attempts to reconcile these two facts by proposing that the ablative in modern Tunumiisut is an innovation that resulted from the interaction of the noun and the demonstrative declensions which is facilitated by well-known mechanisms in the history of the Inuit-Yupik languages.
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