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Re: Core case roles

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 13:04
En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> > What definition of an "oblique case" are you using here? The one I > learnt is > a "non-nominative case", which admittedly appears pretty pointless. >
It would mean that accusative is an "oblique" case, which is a view I've never even seen anywhere. I take "oblique" as meaning "non-core", or "optional" (in the sense that an oblique case is never to be mandatorily present to get a grammatically correct sentence, even though it may be needed for it to be meaningful). Of course, in the case of semantic roles, "oblique" simply means "non-core". Theory has to provide us with the exact core roles. Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.