Re: Cases + Word Order?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 18, 2001, 5:12 |
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D Tse wrote:
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> 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)?
Sure, Old English, for one, in many nouns failed to distinguish between
nominative and accusative, but did distinguish between those and
genitive and dative.
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