Re: English has 4 cases, not 3!
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 25, 2001, 19:08 |
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Am 25.12.01, Joe Hill yscrifef:
> > If you consider English suffixes like -wards as case suffixes, I'm
> > sure there are many other such examples, but I can't think of any,
> > as ... uh ... it's yes! it's the night after Christmas day and I
> > can't think properly. That will do.
>
> European then?
>
> As in Non-English European.
Some European languages have case still. In the West, Gaelic
still shows some traces; and perhaps Icelandic. Certainly the
Romance languages (outside of Romanian) have lost case
altogether. Slavic and possibly Greek will be your best bets
for case in IE languages.
Padraic.
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