Re: how many cases is too many?
| From: | <veritosproject@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 22, 2005, 18:07 |
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> 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?
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I've seen everything--no case system at all (Chinese, etc.) to 24
(Hungarian). IMHO, free sentence structure = faster thought, so I
would think that old system works. It's your language though--do what
you will.
Basically, anything to mark the agent, patient, and a means for the
action will be enough.
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