Re: oblique
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 19, 2003, 5:13 |
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En réponse à Joe <joe@...>:
>
> 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.
>
> I hope I got that right...
>
Spot on!
Christophe.
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