Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...
| From: | Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 6, 2001, 5:14 |
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nicole dobrowolski wrote:
> what about in the "one of us" example? would 'one' or 'us' be
> considered genitive (and what would the other one be?)
`of us' is partitive. there's no partitive form in general IE, so each
language handles it differently; i'd guess that in Latin it would be
ablative (a part taken FROM a mass). in English `us' is merely an
object (of a preposition).
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