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Re: Cases, again

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 17, 2004, 9:43
Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> In German, prepositions go with either the Dative or the Accusative. > They go with the accusative if there is movement > onvolved(oversimplification alert!) and dative if it stays stationary. > Some prepositions can go with either - 'in' can mean 'in' or 'into', > depending on the case it's given.
Actually, there's also a whole bunch of prepositions which go with the genitive too; eg _während des Krieges_, lit "during the war's". Most aren't terribly common, however.
> But that's German. I can't see a reason adpositions shouldn't be put by > any of those four cases. You could use all of them, you could only use > one, or you could have a Positional case, if you want to.
There's apparently a universal against prepositions governing the nominative. Unaware of this, I made all prepositions in the Klaishic languages govern it. Andreas

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