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Re: Order of cases

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Sunday, October 3, 2004, 20:29
Hallo!

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:01:32 -0400,
Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:42:36 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Rhiemeier > <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote: > > > >The normal order in which I list the cases of Old Albic is: > > > >1. Agentive > >2. Genitive > >3. Dative > >4. Objective > >5. Instrumental > >6. Locative > >7. Allative > >8. Ablative > > Why no "Patientive"?
That's the objective case. I could indeed rename it "patientive", and actually pondered such a renaming several times, but I have become used to calling it "objective". It is also the term Fillmore used for the "deep case" the Albic objective case represents. Greetings, Jörg.