Mark J. Reed wrote:
>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?
>
>-Mark
>
>
My intuition tells me that "times" is not seving a nouny purpose here;
"many times" is an adverb that just happens to look like a noun.
--
He manako te koura i kore ai.
There are no crayfish because you set your heart on them.
Maori.
Shreyas