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Re: all possible cases ;-)

From:daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...>
Date:Thursday, October 18, 2001, 11:08
Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

> It isn't in the Georgian grammar, anyway. Georgian is Kartvelian > (or South Caucasian), a family now held to be unrelated to > Northeast Caucasian, and doesn't have a case system like that. > AFAIK, Georgian has only 7 cases, though it of course has a number of > postpositions, perhaps with similar effect. (The Northwest Caucasian > languages, yet a different family altogether, have even fewer cases.)
Oh. You're right. I don't know how I mixed that up. Georgian uses a system of postpositions which in turn govern case (dative, genitive, instrumental and adverbial). Much like IE languages. I wonder if there has been any influence from e.g. Russian. The cases are nominative, narrative, dative, genitive, instrumental, adverbial and vocative. The nominative is more like nominative/ absolutive, the narrative is more like ergative and the dative often behaves like the accusative. Oh well. That's what you get in a split-ergative / active language. ||| daniel