Re: Order of cases
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 30, 2004, 16:24 |
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Hallo!
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:49:31 +0200,
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> ObConlang: if your conlang uses IE-oid cases, in which order do you
> typically list them?
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
The order of the first four cases is essentially the same as the
"canonical" order in German (if one equates agt. with nom. and
obj. with acc.); the order I use also neatly separates the three cases
that are formed from the agentive stem (1.-3.) from those that are
formed from the objective stem (4.-8.), and groups the local cases
at the end.
Greetings,
Jörg.
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