Re: THEORY: Why more than two grammatical relations?
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 21, 2007, 8:21 |
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:38:15 -0400, Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:
>>I also get the impression that the term "grammatical relation" is better suited
>>for a language such as English that doesn't have case marks.
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>I do not know whether or not that is the case; but languages like Greek and
>Latin and German and many other European languages have usually been
>analyzed as having grammatical relations.
Certainly, German is analyzed as having subjects and objects. It distinguishes four kind of
object according to most analysis: Accusative object, dative object, genitive object and
prepositional object. Prepositional objects are considered objects because the prepositions are
not chosen according to their semantics, but are determined by the verb in much the same
way objects are.
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grüess
mach
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äär ìš šreec uf ’čtraass, hé-z läpe-nùgger emne-noutto cclaa...