Re: Language Change

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Patrick Dunn wrote:

> I was unaware that languages could gain cases; I was always under
> the impression that languages tended to simplify, but now I see
> that "simple" is subjective, isn't it? Hmm.
Valdyan will probably gain some (more) cases again in the future:
prepositions have already become postpositions, postpositions are
attaching themselves to words as suffixes, the next step is that the
suffix is no longer recognized as a separate entity though the
meaning remains - voila! a case ending.

   Irina

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