Re: Cases, again
| From: | Apollo Hogan <apollo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 18, 2004, 18:15 |
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Herman Miller wrote:
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > There's apparently a universal against prepositions governing the nominative.
> > Unaware of this, I made all prepositions in the Klaishic languages govern it.
>
> [...]
>
> Are there really no languages with prepositions governing the
> nominative? Does that also apply to the absolutive in ergative langs?
>
In Russian, doesn't 'za' govern the nominative in phrases such as
chto za chort'?!
or
chto za utka tebja ukusila?
?
--Apollo
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