Re: Order of cases
| From: | Ben Poplawski <thebassplayer@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 30, 2004, 22:55 |
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:09:59 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
>As far as I've seen, the standard for German, Latin, and Old English(at
>least) is the following:
>
>Nominative
>Accusative
>Vocative
>Genitive
>Dative
>Ablative
For Latin I learned Nom-Gen-Acc-Dat-Abl-Voc. The reference text I used had
the genitive as the citation form, so it makes sense it was second. And it
made sense to me to use the genitive, considering the rampant irregularity
of the nominative case (3rd declension, anyone?). (It also had the 1p sg
present ind for the citation form of the verb which would always throw me,
coming from Spanish.)
>Instrumental comes after Dative, but where it occurs in relation to
>Ablative, I don't know.
I've heard a lot about an Old English instrumental case, but I haven't seen
anything on it. The best I got was a description of four cases, the same
ones in German.
Buenos días,
Ben
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