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Re: Order of cases

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Thursday, September 30, 2004, 17:09
John Cowan wrote:

>Philip Newton scripsit: > > > >>Standard German order (as much as it has one) is NOM-GEN-DAT-ACC. >> >> > >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: > >
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.