Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)
From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, June 7, 2000, 14:06 |
Roger Mills wrote:
> Interestingly too, a few verbs governed cases other than
> accusative-- memini 'remember' + genitive [...]
Parallel to English "I am reminded of it"; note also that "memini"
is always passive in form, and is highly defective to boot.
> Most Indo Eur. langs. IIRC never used the nom. or voc. after preps.
> -- but that doesn't mean _you_ can't ;-)
Except Esperanto, of course.
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