Re: inverse constructions
| From: | Daniel Andreasson <noldo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 7, 1999, 16:20 |
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Gerald Koenig skrev:
> >Anyway, continuing the idea of 3 core cases for, approximately,
> >nominative accusative dative, there are 3 more common obliques,
> >genitive ablative locative.
=20
> perhaps the theory is correct and there are 3 more natural cases, I
> don't know. Does anyone have candidates? I notice that the obliques
> can be construed as usual as spatials, perhaps the missing three also
> can.
'Instrumental' and 'allative' as opposed to ablative and locative
(unless that is covered by dative).
As for the ninth, it's hard to find a 'natural' choice
or one that doesn't come in a pair or triple.=20
(like inessive/elative/illative - inside of/out of/into)
/ Daniel Andreasson