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In this video, we look at the Ablative case, and how its meaning has evolved from simply "movement away from" to instrumental, locative, and other applications! To accomplish this, we'll go through some of the uses of the Ablative case in Latin and Finnish. In addition, we'll observe how Ablative expressions arise through grammaticalization! We'll look at some specific sources from which it may come from.

In the last section of the video, we will see some examples of where the Ablative case may evolve to, including comparative, adverbial, and partitive uses! Hopefully this video gives you some conlang inspiration! This video started as a research project for my own constructed languages, but as I delved deeper I thought it was too interesting to not share with you all!

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(Note: Through a production error that I just discovered, the name Clemens Niemi is misspelled/mispronounced as Clemens Nieli... My apologies, and thanks for your understanding!)

A complete Latin Grammar by Albert Harkness:

https://archive.org/details/cu3192402...

Allen and Greenough's New Latin grammar for schools and colleges, founded on comparative grammar by Joseph Henry Allen, J.B. Greenough, et. al.:

https://archive.org/details/allengree...

A Finnish Grammar by Clemens Niemi:

https://archive.org/details/finnishgr...

Diccionario general etimologico de la lengua española (General etymological dictionary of the Spanish language) by Eduardo de Echegaray (For the etymologies of "desde and desque"):

https://archive.org/details/diccionar...

0:00 Introduction
00:48 What is the Ablative case?
2:49 The Ablative Proper
5:41 The Instrumental Ablative
8:35 The Locative Ablative
10:29 Finishing up the Latin Ablative
11:01 The Finnish Ablative
12:11 Origin of the Ablative
14:40 Evolution of the Ablative
18:51 Conclusion

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