Re: oblique
| From: | Florian Rivoal <florian@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 18, 2003, 12:10 |
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>On Saturday 18 January 2003 11:07 am, Florian Rivoal wrote:
>> what is the oblique case?
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>Oblique cases are usually all cases apart from the Nominative and the
>Accusative. In Direct/Oblique systems, such as Romanian or Hindi, the Direct
>case refers to the Subject or Direct object, and the Oblique to the indirect
>object and Pre/Postpositional phrases. However, in Old French terminology,
>the Direct is just the subject, and the Oblique everything else.
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>I hope I got that right...
don't know if it is right, since i was asking the question, but at least, it is clear. thanks
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