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Re: Cases + Word Order?

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Sunday, February 18, 2001, 3:45
En réponse à D Tse <exponent@...>:

> Hello... > > 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)? > > Thanks > > Imperative >
Well, difficult to say... How plausible is a language with cases not to distinguish subject and object through case distinctions? Not very likely I guess. But still prepositions can be argued to be a kind a casual distinctions, and they usually don't distinguish subject and object... Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr