| From: | Jim Grossmann <steven@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 1, 2002, 4:02 |
To see a system with a lot of cases, you probably want to check out a grammar of Finnish. To get lots of detail on ergative/absolutive systems, check out a book called "Ergativity" by RMW Dixon (Cambridge University Press). Are you right with these five? If you're asking whether a language could get along with only these five cases for its nouns and pronouns, I'd say "yes." Jim