Re: Theory about the evolution of languages
| From: | Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 18, 2004, 11:52 |
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Sorry, I did forget to count the genitive. So I guess Normal English
nouns have two cases: Genitive and Non-Genitive. Pronouns have three:
Subject, Object/Oblique, and Genitive. :) But I'm still not sure that
you can say that the tense/aspect system of the Romance languages has
increased in the number of distinctions it makes since latin, since the
opposite seems the case to me.