Re: Help with case names

On 3 Apr 02, at 20:31, Christopher B Wright wrote:

> Daniel lanaþan:
> <Aha! That's "Prepositional". If you mean that the case
> in itself doesn't indicate the "on", but you have to
> have a preposition (or postposition for that matter) and
> then a case to indicate that the preposition belongs to
> that word.>
>
> Many languages use the genitive to cover the prepositional. Latin
> sometimes does this and sometimes uses the ablative.
Verdurian uses the dative. At any rate, nearly all prepositions take
the dative case (sometimes as one possibility among several, especially
with locative prepositions to make distinctions such as "in" vs
"into").

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>

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