Re: cases
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 8:17 |
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Wesley Parish wrote:
> Case refers to the sound changes for particular roles a word plays in a
> sentence. It follows that if a word makes no changes for any of those roles,
> it can't be a case system, can it now?
Not necessarily. Some people do refer to "semantic cases" as opposed to
morphological cases. Of course, semantic cases are more of a vague
concept.
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