--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:
> The locative doesn't always mean "in". It may be used for a wide
variety of nuances. It could just as well mean "at father" or "next to
father" or "beside father". These are more natural usages of this noun
and they would all use the same locative marker that you protest.
As a native speaker of a language where the locative is still alive
and kicking, may I add that its typical uses in Polish include "after
father" and "about father". The latter, I suppose, is the most
frequent of 'em all.
Piotr