Re: inverse constructions

Gerald Koenig wrote:
> Hi, Nik,
> I think I misunderstood your first post. I thought you had said that
> there were languages with less than 3 case-roles, as opposed to less
> than 3 grammatical forms to represent case-roles with. I was thinking
> only of the actual functions that arguments to verbs have, not the forms
> that they take in various languages. Sorry for the confusion, this was
> a new idea and not well formulated.
Ah, my apology.  You're very right - I know of no natural language that
does not distinguish between those three case roles in some manner, be
it case, word order, or adposition.

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