Re: cases
| From: | Cian Ross <cian@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 1, 2002, 4:08 |
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On Saturday 30 November 2002 09:09 pm, Florian Rivoal wrote:
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> Nominative for subject
> accusative for direct object
> dative for indirect object
> gentive for possession
> vocative for calling
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> first question : Am i right with these 5?
You're in good company: this is the same set (IIRC) as classical Greek.
> second : what other functions do these cases occasionaly have?
That varies with the language (I believe Latin uses an Accusative of
Duration, for instance)...please do feel free to invent your own uses, in
whatever ways make sense to you in the new conlang.
Cian
http://www.self-owner.org/~cian/conlang/