Re: Verbs derived from noun cases

From:    Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
> > I'd consider one case the same as zero cases. :-)
>
> IMO it doesn't make sense to talk of nouns & pronouns having one case.
> That'd mean all the world's languages decline their nouns & pronouns which
> seems to me counter-intuitive.
OTOH, some syntactic theories, like the Government and Binding,
distinguish between overt and abstract Case.  All languages are
held to have abstract Case;  only some languages have morphological
realization of overt case.

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