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Final case is used for marking ''final cause'' ("for a house"). Semitic languages had that case, but all of them lost itKarin C Ryding, ''A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic'', Page 166
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. In Arabic, nouns in such position are marked by the accusative marking (e.g. ''ǧadda ṭalaban li-l-ʼaǧri'' he worked hard for the sake of reward).


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Causal-final case In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated ) is a valency-increasing operationPayne, Thomas E. (1997). Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 173–186. that indicates that a subject either ...
found in Hungarian language.


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