Re: CHAT: Back on the list; Anti-conlanging bigots

Quoting David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

> In a message dated 12/5/01 6:22:59 PM, trwier@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
> writes:
>
> << I mentioned that I knew off the top of my
> head of no natural languages which marked case in that way, though
> I did know of a constructed language that did this. >>
>
>     Had I known this before I created my first language, I would've
> created some sort of case for objects of prepositions.
Russian does this, I'm told.  Georgian comes close, but doesn't
really fit the bill.

> :(  What about
> languages with no overt case marking, like Chinese?  (Note: I don't know
> Chinese; I'm just asking.)
No, that's a legitimate question.  The implication in class was
that we were talking about languages which do overtly assign case
(like English and Esperanto), but that it was, to say the least,
VERY typologically marked to find a language which marked nominative
case for objects of prepositions.

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