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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 ;-)
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