Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...
| From: | nicole dobrowolski <fuzzybluemonkeys@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 6, 2001, 20:07 |
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--- Christopher Wright froge sionk:
> >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?
>
> You are a student, but *you* are doing the action--being--and
> *student* is
> receiving it. Whatever does the action is nominative, and whatever
> receives
> it is accusative.
i actually read subsequent posts before i got this one (there goes
that dang gettin email out of order thing again...) but i'm still a
bit confused about the action of 'being'... say 'nicole is a
student'(which, coincidentally, she is...) ...aren't nicole and
student interchangeable (not physically... 'the student is nicole'
would actually probably sound better than 'a student is nicole') but
both terms ('student' and 'nicole') would be referring to the blob of
flesh and bones that is me...aaaaaaaaaaaaugh! i don't even know
anymore... which is probably why this stuff has perpetually confused
me....
> Hey, I might not know the fancy notation,
i don't know much fancy notation either (stinky linguistics class...
taught me frelled up american version of the ipa... grrr...)
> but I know a lot more
> about the
> workings of language than some of you do.
<sn@rfle> i never claimed to know anything about the workings of
language... that's why i *asked*, silly monkey...
>I'm fresh into high
> school; I
> haven't had an opportunity to forget.
well i'm fresh out of high school... but i never learned it in the
first place (that's a pennsbury edification for ya...)... except for
vague bits of german that i managed to muddle through (i tend to
muddle through a lot of things... reality included)... so there
wasn't much to forget...
btw... you never did answer my question from a different thread:
'what is a root system?'... and i'm still as curious as george about
it if you wouldn't mind explaining...
...nicole
the problem with vacations is that when you come back, reality is
always just the way you left it...
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