Re: GROUPLANG: cases (was: noun and verb roots)

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 23:46:20 -0300, Pablo Flores
<fflores@...> wrote:

>What I'm trying to do here is to show you that there's
>a way to reduce the complexity of the case system by merging
>some related functions into a single case, and letting word
>order and context do the rest. I find the 10-case system very
>interesting but too difficult to use... I don't know if the
>rest of us feel the same.
>
>
>--Pablo Flores
I think we should look for "minimal pairs" to distinguish cases, and if =
we
can't find a context that would have a distinct and useful meaning for a
particular pair of cases, we should consider merging that pair.