Re: Case Name

>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 it
"nominative" and "the kitchen sink".

I still prefer the longer "nominative-accusative" and "dative-genitive"
since it's more clear than saying something like "nominative" and "oblique".
  Or, in a paragraph, use the longer names first, then the shorter.  (I do
that with racial terms: "African-American" then "Black", "Latin-American"
then "Hispanic"...)

Danny Wier ¶¦¬þ
Lufkin, Texas USA
http://communities.msn.com/dawier
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