Re: inverse constructions
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Saturday, November 6, 1999, 1:18 |
|---|
Charles wrote:
> I love that idea, but what about dative?
> Is there any natural language that uses only 2 core cases?
Old French and Vulgar Latin had only nominative and oblique. And, of
course, English has only genitive and non-genitive (is there another
name for that case?)
--
"It has been postulated that, given an infinite number of monkeys
bashing away at an infinite number of keyboards, we could eventually
reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we
now know this to be incorrect." - Anonymous
http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files
http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html
ICQ: 18656696
AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor