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Re: Ordering of case names

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Thursday, September 12, 2002, 10:59
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 _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com