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Re: all possible cases ;-)

From:Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...>
Date:Saturday, October 20, 2001, 16:28
I do this in Eviendadhail, which is somewhat agglutinating.  Technically
speaking, I think only my nominative, accusative and instrumental are
true 'cases': the rest are more of attatched prepostions.  (They are all
prefixes.)  However, the Cadarer, who spoke Eviendadhail, consider them
all the same class of morpheme.
-M

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
 In agglutinating languages, I
> guess you can go very far, but then cases are not much more that cliticized > postpositions (or prepositions, if your case marks are prefixes). >