Ordering of case names [was Re: Structure of documents about your conlangs]

Quoting Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>:

> On 9 Sep 02, at 6:23, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>
> > (as a matter of fact, I've never seen the verbs coming before the
> > nouns).
>
> Mark Rosenfelder's Verdurian has verbs before nouns on his morphology
> page. (He also has an unusual -- to me -- order of cases, with N G A D,
> whereas I am used to N G D A from German and (Ancient) Greek.)
Really? When I learned German, the order was usually N A D G
(which was both the listed order, and the order in which we
learned their functions). In Phaleran, cases are always listed
like the following, for full nouns: Ergative, Absolutive, Dative,
Instrumental, Benefactive, Durative, Abessive.  For pronouns,
replace "Ergative, Absolutive," with "S, A, O," (naturally, to
describe Phaleran's split-ergative morphology in pronouns.)

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