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

From:Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
Date:Friday, December 7, 2001, 19:56
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 21:34:45 +0100, Lukasz Korczewski
<lucasso@...> wrote:

>And in such >a weird language as Polish you use for example genitive to denote objects
in
>negative sentences: > > Ania bije Kasie~. > Anne(nom.) beat Kate(acc.). > >but: > > Ania nie bije Kasi. > Anne(nom.) don't beat Kate(gen.).
Same in Russian, and most of the other Slavic langs. Not so weird, if you consider the use of _de_ (resembling Gen. a lot) with negations in French. (Christophe? I always make mistakes in French :( )
>You also use so called instrumental: > > Pisze~ ol~ówkiem. > I write with a pencil(instr.) > >also with copula: > > Jestem ol~ówkiem. > I am a pencil.
Roman Jakobson, in a paper about the meanings of cases in Russian, compared instrumental to 'secondary nominative' (I forget the actual term he used, though). AFAIK, Polish also uses Nom., e. g. after _to_ 'this (is)'. Basilius

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