Re: TERMINOLOGY: Re: another new language to check out

Andreas wrote:

<< When you say nominative, do you mean accusative? The nominative, not mentioned
 in my previous post, is unmarked.>>

Oh, yeah.  :)  And since the nominative isn't marked, there's obviously no way to tell
whether the plural marker comes before or afterwards, right?

<<NOM stelza  stelzan
 ACC stelzas stelzans
 DAT stelzar stelzaner
 GEN stelzai stelzain

 Clearly, the genitive form is the odd one out. This might be related to the fact
 that while the other cases goes back as far as I've done any work on the family,
 the genitive is relatively recent; it arose about a millennium ago.>>

Ah, yes.  Yeah, that's what I was thinking.  :)

-David

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