Re: Ordering of case names

Yitzik wrote:
>The first letters of each word stand for abbreviations of Russian
>cases:
>I. - Imenitel'nyj - N;
>R. - Roditel'nyj - G;
>D. - Datel'nyj - D.;
>V. - Vinitel'nyj - A.;
>T. - Tvoritel'nyj - I.;
>P. - Predlozhnyj - L. (or lit. "Prepositional", since in Ru. and Uk.
>it is used only in combination with certain prepositions).
Funny. In Yargish the locative is only used with postpositions ... perhaps I
should be renaming it "postpositional"? Then perhaps not, since it with most
postpositions have a decidedly locative meaning. Eg _u-diriz-zata_ with the
locative of _dir_ "forest" means "in the forest", _u-diru-zata_ with the
dative means "into the forest" and _u-dira-zata_ with ergative means "out of
the forest". Is the situation in Russian and Ukrainian similar? And what
about Belorussian, BTW?

                                                   Andreas

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