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Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...

From:Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Thursday, December 6, 2001, 13:55
Nope, because there is no case here, if you define "nominative" as being
"the case of the doer" - nothing's being done. In "the student writes"
student is nominative (he's writing).
Mike
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From: "Kala Tunu" <kalatunu@...>
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Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: sorta OT: cases: please help...


> nicole dobrowolski <fuzzybluemonkeys@...> wrote: > Subject: Re: sorta OT: cases: please help... > > here are some of the examples my polish professor gave us: > 'i write with a pen'... ok that works 'pen' is in the > instrumental > case, but the next example is: 'i am a student'... huh? > what? > wouldn't both 'i' and 'student' be nominative? > > ...nicole > > "The strength of a civilization is not measured by its > ability to > fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent > them."--Gene Roddenberry > """""""""""""""""""""""" > depends whether you talk about "core cases/roles" or about > "grammatical cases". > with core roles, "student" is an equative. with grammatical > cases, the same equative is expressed with either a > nominative (german), an accusative (latin) or whatever. > grammatical cases depend on the lang. for instance in > correct french genitive is made with the genitive > preposition "de" > ("la voiture de mon frère") but in "bad french" it's made > with > the dative "à" ("la voiture à mon frère"). > in estonian, the accusative is usually expressed with a > partitive genitive. > > Mathias > www.geocities.com/kalatunu/index.htm