Re: What defines the case name?

Quoting Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>:

> So, IMO one can safely call "dative" any case that shares some main
> roles of cases called "datives" in a few well-known languages.
Indeed, Georgian's "dative" case does take a typical dative
function in the aorist as the indirect object, while at the
same time, the "nominative" marks the direct object.  (Georgian
is weird no matter what way you try to describe it.)

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