Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...
| From: | Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 6, 2001, 7:45 |
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jogloran wrote:
> If I remember clearly, Locative is an archaic case (aren't all latin
> cases archaic? ;) that was only used later in certain place names and
> in set expressions (latin for "at home" IIRC).
The locative is lost as a distinct case *in classical Latin*.
It exists in Sanskrit, has been reconstructed for pIE,
and presumably existed in preliterate Latin.
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