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

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