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Re: Case Name

From:Brad Coon <bcoon@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 4, 2000, 22:32
Danny Wier wrote:
> > >From: Dan Jones <yl-ruil@...> > > >In Romanian, the Latin case system has collapsed to just two cases, the > >nominative-accusative and the dative-genitive. What are these actually > >called, rather than a clumsy juxtaposition of two names? If there isn't an > >actual current technical term, can anyone think of one, because Carashan > >uses the same system (broadly speaking)? I did think about normal and > >oblique, but to call a noun "normal" seems odd to me. > > I've seen the terminology "nominative" and "oblique". Or "subjective" and > "objective" (which better describes English pronouns). Or as I call
I recall a description that used Direct and Indirect. Had a certain simple elegance to it. -- Brad Coon bcoon@imt.net Somedays when you wake up, its just not worth chewing through the leather straps.