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Re: forming sentences...

From:Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 1, 2001, 2:40
Hmmm...this makes me feel dumb.  Eviendadhail has hundreds of cases;
they corrospond to nearly all English prepositions.  Oh well.  I like
the system as it is.
Saran edorir,
-M

Robert Hailman wrote:
> > Yeah, there are a whole lot - cases are *very* open ended, so you can > have as many as you think of, although that would certainly seem very > artificial. No language AFAIK has all of those, although some languages > have a lot. Somewhere in the range of 5 or so seems to be fairly common > in natural language
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> -- > Robert