Re: Case

Padraic Brown wrote:
> Well, I only _supposed_; and wasn't intent on connecting the two parts in
> that way, but OK. I also suppose one could argue 5 Latin cases (with an
> occasional appearance by the vocative making for six). :)  It's been done
> with English as well.
I read a brief grammar of Romanian that claimed the existence of five
cases - nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and vocative, with
nominative and accusative being identical in form, and genitive and
dative being identical in form, and vocative having a distinct form
(altho I'd never heard of a vocative case in Romanian - is that an
archaism?)  I believe the example was something like
Nominative
homul (the man)
Accusative
homul (the man)
Genetive
homului (of the man)
Dative
homului (to the man)
Vocative
homule (Oh man!)

If that vocative is a genuine case-form in Modern Romanian, I'd, of
course, only count three cases.

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