Re: Cases + Word Order?
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg.rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 18, 2001, 0:30 |
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D Tse <exponent@...> writes:
> Hello...
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> I'm in the middle of majorly reworking the slightly more complex of my two
> conlangs and I was just wondering...is it feasible or possible for word
> order to dictate subject and object etc and still have cases to mark other
> relationships (spatial, etc)?
I see no problem with this. If understand you correctly, you mean
having a single case for both subject and direct object, plus several
oblique cases, and tell subject and object apart by word order. Right?
I think such languages actually exist. (If I am not mistaken, Rumanian
is one of them.)
Jörg.
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