Re: Looking for a case: counting

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wote:

> In this sentence:
>
>         I threw the ball for the dog many times in the park yesterday.
>
> It feels to me like "times" should be in some sort of "counting" case,
> but I don't have a name for it, or anything appropriate in my current
> morphology.  How do other highly-inflected languages treat this sort of
> thing?
  (I've missed this thread-starting posting.)

  This case called "multiplicative" in Hungarian grammars and it
has a separate suffix <-szOr> (pronounced as [sor], [ser] or [s2r]
depending on vowel harmony).

  However it's debated that this would be a true grammatical case,
because only numerals may have it, nouns and adjectives not.