Re: What case is the inverse of the dative?

Den 5. okt. 2008 kl. 06.58 skreiv Gregory Gadow:

> The genitive sounds good, but I am already using that as one of two
> possessive cases (the other is, oddly enough, the possessive.) The
> genitive is used to show something as the creation of something
> else ("John's book [that he wrote]" as distinct from "John's book
> [that he owns]"),
If you look at an active statement with an indirect object, like
"John gives Lucy the book", the indirect object takes the dative. You
can "invert" the statement by turning it into a passive one: "Lucy
was given the book by John", so I think whatever case you use for the
agent in this sentence will be the inverse of the dative.

I think the genitive you are describing above may be the thing to
use. After all, John's book is the book (written, made) by John, a
regular passive statement.

LEF

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