Re: Case Name

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.
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