| Summary: | Although a number of Uralic languages, especially Finnic, Saami and Northern Samoyedic possess predicative cases which are used to encode a change of state as well as impermanent states, the existence of such cases is, of course, not a unique feature of Uralic. Similar cases are known e.g. in Yukaghir and Chukchi (and in fact, even beyond). Upon a short areal synopsis, this study covers the so called purposive case in Tundra Yukaghir in great detail and compares its function with that of Forest Enets. Although the grammaticalization history of the Tundra Yukaghir purposive and the Northern Samoyedic essive-translative case shows significant typological parallels since it arose of the grammaticalization of a converbal form of the copula, its synchronic morphosyntax differs significantly, because the Tundra Yukaghir purposive case is used as depictive, whereas the Northern Samoyedic essive-translative is compatible with both depictive and resultative readings.
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