Re: Order of cases

John Cowan wrote:

>Philip Newton scripsit:
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>>Standard German order (as much as it has one) is NOM-GEN-DAT-ACC.
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>Here in the U.S. I studied both German and Latin using this case order
>(with ablative at the end for Latin).  Nom-acc order seems to be commoner
>in the U.K. for Latin grammars, and perhaps it's spread to grammars of
>German as well.  This hasn't always been true even in the U.K., however,
>as the following passage from _Alice in Wonderland_ shows:
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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

Instrumental comes after Dative, but where it occurs in relation to
Ablative, I don't know.