Re: Order of cases
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 30, 2004, 20:16 |
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:49:31 +0200, Philip Newton
<philip.newton@...> wrote:
> When I saw a book in English for English people learning German, I
> remember being surprised that it had NOM-ACC-(don't remember the order
> of the other two).
The order I learned was Nom, Acc, Dat, Gen, and it's the order I recite
mentally to this day. I have no idea why that order was chosen.
> ObConlang: if your conlang uses IE-oid cases, in which order do you
> typically list them?
Thagojian has fusional Gender+Case suffixes that can agglutinate onto both
nominals and verbs.
I haven't really published a defined order, but in my notes, they're
usually in the order...
Nominative
Accusative
Dative
Genitive
Partitive
Ergative/Causative
Instrumental
Locative
Allative
...plus or minus some shuffling, and a few experimental cases that come
and go.
Paul
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