Re: Order of cases
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 30, 2004, 16:38 |
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One more thing. After I posted on the presentation order of case in the
Old germanic grammars I have available to me, I looked in some Latin
textbooks, and the order there is the same as the German order (NOM GEN
DAT ACC ABL), so maybe the German grammatical tradition borrowed the
order of cases from Latin.
Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga
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"I believe that phonology is superior to music. It is more variable and
its pecuniary possibilities are far greater." - Erik Satie
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