HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCATIVE AND ELATIVE CASES

Abstract

The dative and locative cases of the noun were close in meaning. In Sumerian, local case was
expressed by the affix -e: in columns е-би-а. This affix, used in parallel in the meaning of the dative
and locative cases, gradually became established as an affix of the dative case.
In the Sumerian language, the affix -ta of the elative case, from the time of the formation of the
national language, began to be used as an affix of the local case. The elative case was expressed by the
affix -dın as part of the affix -madın, used as a gerundial affix in “Dede Korkut”, with the transition of
the closed vowel of this affix to the open one, it acquired stability in the form of -dan, -dən. These
changes relate to the period of formation of the national language (the period after the 5th century).
The instrumental case of the noun was expressed by the affix -ın and became archaic from the
17th-18th centuries.