Re: Lydian

>Message: 25
>    Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:27:30 +0100
>    From: daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...>
>Subject: Re: Lydian
>
>Luca wrote:
>
> > > I just wanted to point out that the nominative is
> > > usually the unmarked case in nominative languages
>
> > Well, that's just a rule of thumb.
>
>Hence the "usually". Old Icelandic (I don't know about
>present day Icelandic) also had it "reversed". Some
>of the stems had an _-r_ suffix in the nominative, but
>were unmarked in the accusative.
>
>Schoolbook example:
>
>(a-stem, masc. _armr_ 'arm')
>
>NOM armr
>GEN arms
>DAT armi
>ACC arm
>
>And I'm pretty sure Old Icelandic is nominative, though
>it does display some quirky case marking. :)
>
>Daniel Andreasson
>
So is my conlang (Old) Fortunatian:
erus 'master'
N e:rus        e:ri:
G e:ri:        e:ro:r
A e:r          e:ro:s


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