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Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, June 11, 2000, 22:40
"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. -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Glassín wafilái pigasyúv táv pifyániivav nadusakyáavav sussyáiyatantu wawailáv ku suslawayástantu ku usfunufilpyasváditanva wafpatilikániv wafluwáiv suttakíi wakinakatáli tiDikáufli!" - nLáf mÁldu nÍmasun ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor