Re: all possible cases ;-)

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