Re: Case Name

"core" and oblique

David

David. E. Bell
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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Dan Jones
> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 10:36 AM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Case Name
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> A quick question of technical terminology:
>
> 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.
>
> Your help appreciated.
>
> Dan
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