Locatives, Part and Whole in Uralic.

In this paper we provide a characterization of the adpositional domain in Finnish, taking into account some comparative evidence from the Uralic family. We show that accounts put forth in the recent theoretical literature are not empirically adequate and we will provide a novel solution, assuming that inner case morphemes (both the genitive and the -l, -s morphemes in Finnish) are best characterized as part-whole/zonal inclusion relator (following Manzini and Savoia 2011, Manzini and Franco 2016, among others), while what are traditionally labelled as adpositions in Finnish (and elsewhere in Uralic) are best characterized as Axial Parts (in the sense of Svenonius 2006 and following literature). We will leave the proper characterization of the outer case inflections for future research.