ИСТИНА

There are three locative cases in Hill Mari (a Finno-Ugric language): inessive, illative and lative. The most challenging one is lative, which develops a non-standard polysemy. Particularly, it demonstrates a typologically non-trivial shift from its initial directional semantics to causal semantics. I will analyze the uses of lative (previously not described in full detail) and put forward a hypothesis explaining its polysemy.