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Re: Case

From:Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
Date:Thursday, July 15, 1999, 13:24
Nik Taylor wrote:

>Kristian Jensen wrote: >> Boreanesian gets away with just three cases, which is perhaps the >> absolute minimum in any language. > >What about English's two?
Your right, of course. But somehow I did not consider languages like=20 English which does not have a case system that fully distinguishes=20 subject from object. But then again, neither does Boreanesian 'cuz=20 the notion of subject and object does not really apply to Boreanesian. I suppose some kind of Boreanesian intuition is well established in my=20 mind. -kristian- 8)