Re: Help with case names

In a message dated 04/1/02 1:04:21 PM, valoczy@VCN.BC.CA writes:

<< > ?   -sti    benefactive (for)

This'd be dative >>

    I'm pretty sure there are two separate cases for benefactive and dative.
For example, what about the sentence "I gave her the book on your behalf".
Seems like "her" would be dative and the "you" (in that "on your behalf"
phrase) would get benefactive.  Or does such a distinction not actually exist
in a natural language...?  Seems like one of those splitting hairs deals that
just might not...

-David

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