Re: Accusative or not accusative; that is the question

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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