Re: how many cases is too many?

Hi!

Reilly Schlaier <schlaier@...> writes:
> one of my older conlangs has: Nom., Accu., Dative, Benefactive,
> Genitive, Posessive, Ablative, Allative, Vocative and Insrumental.
> how many in you personal opinions is too many?
> most of the time i prefer to keep it down to Nom./Accu., Dative,
> Posessive and Instrumental.
This totally depends on the design goals of the conlang.

My own extremes range from one (Tyl Sjok has no cases) to unbounded
(Tesäfköm has something you might call 'case', but which is actually
an open lexical class).  Inbetween there are Qthyn|gai with around 21
and Fukhian with 10.

**Henrik