Re: Language universal?

Andreas Johansson sikayal:

> >
> >Musing on a new thread here . . .
> >
> >A while ago, someone mentioned that prepositions do not ever govern the
> >nominative case in languages that mark case.
>
> I assume genitive don't count? Otherwise, English do mark case and have
> nominative after prepositions ...
Except for the pronouns, where we always say "next to me" or "with
him" and other such stuff.  For English you can definitely say that
prepositions govern the accusative, which is only marked in pronouns.

>                                                              Andreas
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