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Re: Ethnologue

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Monday, February 10, 2003, 1:02
From: "Nik Taylor" <yonjuuni@...>

| Those are technically adjectives.  And at any rate, if we're going to
| count things that are limited to only a very small number of words, then
| English has 3 cases (subjective, genitive, objective), Spanish has four
| (nominative, genitive, dative [only in 3rd person; le/les, and not a
| rigid distinction, either], accusative), French has four (well, assuming
| you count je, etc. as words rather than verbal prefixes)

Could you count an "artificial sociative" for Spanish in the case of <conmigo>
"with me" and <contigo> "with thee/you"?