Re: Cases, again

Henrik Theiling scripsit:

> The chaos can be seem in German and Greek as well: if a preposition is
> not spatial, it may use either acc, dat or gen.
There is a movement from the genitive to the dative, however; already
prep+pron.  never uses the genitive, always the dative; most of the
remaining genitive pronouns are obscure; and in speech the dative is
displacing the genitive.

Nevertheless, there must be some deep genitiveness about these
prepositions, because most of them are translated into English with
compound preps ending in "of", with the exceptions of _dank_ 'thanks to',
_entlang_ 'parallel with', and _waehrend_ 'during'.

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