Re: What defines the case name?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pavel Iosad" <pavel_iosad@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: What defines the case name?


> S'mae,
> Ysgrifennodd Joe Hill:
>
> >Just wondering, I've been reading up on georgian and it uses the dative
as
> direct object, so what defines a certain case?
>
> Tradition, or the prejudices of whoever was the first to describe the
> language.
>

I see.