Re: Help with case names

Philip Newton wrote:

> > 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").
Well, most (all?) Germanic (or PIE) languages have (or are)
doing this, and I'm sure plenty of other languages do it as
well. You know, some prepositions govern the dative and some
the accusative and some the genitive, etc. Remember the German
"An auf hinter in neben über unter vor zwischen yada yada yada"
which govern the accusative, etc.

This is quite a chore, btw, when trying to read Old Icelandic
and you have *no idea* why a certain NP ends up in that
particular case. :)

||| daniel

PS. (or perhaps ObLanguageRelatedDream) I just now recalled a
dream I had last night. I dreamt I heard Ancient Greek spoken
and it sounded absolutely fantastic!

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