Re: Thanks! -- also, Classes and Cases.
| From: | Y.Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 15, 2002, 7:58 |
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Shalom, Paul!
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Edson <conlang@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:12 PM
Subject: Thanks! -- also, Classes and Cases.
> The Question:
>
> Is it unusual in NatLangs to have a language with a noun
> class system that also marks a high number of noun cases?
> Are there good examples of languages which do both, either
> Nat- or Con-?
AFAIR, some North-Caucasian languages have a huge number of cases (tho
mostly formed agglutinatively for merging the original case forms with
postpositions), but they have certain class distinction too (up to 6-8
classes)...
> Thanks,
You're welcome!
> Paul.
Yitzik
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