Re: Case

Ed Heil wrote:
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> There is in fact a theory that Indo-European case-endings are nothing
> more than postpositions that got permanently fused onto the words -- a
> situation the exact opposite of what would be happening in your
> language.
Actually, that's a theory that cases are ALWAYS derived from fused
adpositions.

I suspect it's probably pretty rare, but I do know of one case -
English's -'s ending, which has detached from the noun and moved to the
end of the noun phrase, as in "the man I met last night's car", so, I
suppose it's not totally unreasonable that case-suffixes could detach in
the way Nicole proposed.

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