ABSTRACT
and like. What can be reconstructed in the area of vocabulary has analogues in grammar. Proto-Uralic probably had a nominative (or absolute case, with no overt marker), an accusative, a genitive, at least three local cases (locative, allative, ablative), adverbial cases (with such meanings as ‘with’), aspect (or tense) in the verb, an imperative and possibly an impersonal form of the verb.
