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

Re: David Peterson on Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:22 PM

>     Yeah, Russian has a prepositional case with /-ye/ as the ending: [yA
Zivu
> v moskvye] I live(1s) in Moscow(prep).  It also marks motion with the
> accusative, which could be where Zamenhov got his idea: [yA idu nA parku]
I
> go to the park(acc).  Then again, it's probably not that uncommon.
In fact, it's {ja idu v park}. {Park} is a masc. inanimate noun with cons.
auslaut, so it belongs to the 2nd hard type of declension, where N.=Acc.
:-(
A better example is {ja idu na rabotu}. {Rabota} 'work' is fem. with -a in
N., so it belongs to the 1st hard type, that has -u ending for Acc.
btw, the distribution of prepositions are pretty irregular...
{ja idu na rabotu},
{ja idu na zavod} (factory),
but
{ja idu v shkolu} (school),
{ja idu v sad} (garden) &c.

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