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Re: Core case roles

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 11:11
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>Not really. If you are interested into defining the semantic *core* cases, >the >basic distinctions that are found cross-linguistically, then you cannot >separate instrumental and agent for the simple reason that when they can >never >appear *both* as core cases (when both appear, at least one is always >oblique),
What definition of an "oblique case" are you using here? The one I learnt is a "non-nominative case", which admittedly appears pretty pointless. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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