Re: cases

Peter Clakr wrote:
>On Saturday 30 November 2002 09:09 pm, Florian Rivoal wrote:
> > I am considering creating an inflected conlang (i have not started at
>all,
> > just thinking of it). But i have a problem: I don't know much about
>cases.
> > I could create some out of nowhere(i maybe i will for some) for my lang,
> > but i would like first to know what existing natlangs or conlang have. I
>am
> > only familiar with five of them:
>         Well, you could start with the FAQ. :)
>(enamyn.free.fr/conlang/faq.html,
>search for "Introduction to Cases.") It's in desperate need of revision and
>polishing, but it's a start.
>
> > first question : Am i right with these 5?
>         Well, that's one possible system, out of many. I think the bare
>minimum is
>three (assuming an accusative system); nominative, accusative, and
>oblique/genitive/dative (pick one). English, for instance, has case
>remnants:
>accusative and genitive show up in the pronouns (me/my) as well as the 's
>possessive ending. If there are langs (con- or nat-) that only have two,
>I'd
>be interested in hearing about it.
I think Old French just had nominative and accusative? Or am I mixing stuff
up?

At any rate, what'd be surprising about it?

                                                  Andreas

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