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Re: Accusative or not accusative; that is the question

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Monday, September 25, 2006, 4:46
Santiago Matias Feldman wrote:
(snip preliminaries)
> Summing up, the two options are these: > > 1st: > > NOM la om > ACC omul > GEN la omus > DAT la om-??? > ADL? la omat (to the man) > LOC la oman > ??? la omas (from the man) > ??? la omsun (without the man) > etc (under construction!) etc > > 2nd: > > NOM omul > ACC la om > GEN la omus > DAT la om-??? > ADL? la omat > LOC la oman > ??? la omas > ??? la omsïn > etc > > Which one would you choose? >
I find the second to be more logical and regular-- thus, all the oblique cases have the article preceding; also, the nom. with suffixed article could easily derive (granted, with a lot of analogical levelling) from _homo ille_ -- just as it did in Romanian. BTW, "from..." would be ablative, I think; "without..." IIRC is called _privative_.

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