Re: inverse constructions

Charles wrote:
> But the way I'm looking at English, it really has ways
> of marking the equivalent of direct and indirect objects,
> by position or preposition.
Right - I was referring specifically to MORPHOLOGICAL case, of which
English has undeniably only two.  I'd consider English to have four
SYNTACTIC cases - nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive, of which
the first three are morphologically identical in nouns

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