Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> Afterall, as John said, you have Esperanto as an example (nominative
> with prepositions --> contrary to universals).
Are you sure that's a universal?  Surely a language that had only
recently gained cases would use the nominative for most adpositions,
since that was the original form, the form that the adpositions which
had become cases were attached to.  I ask because Watakassí uses
absolutive for some prepositions.

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