Re: On case: (was Re: Learning a language)

From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:19:31 +0200

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:48:53 +0300: holman@elo.helsinki.fi (Eugene
Holman): in sci.lang:

>Russian is probably "easier" from your perspective because it is an
>Indo-European language. The Russian case system has roughly the same
>grammatical functions that the case systems have in Latin and German, and
>it interacts with systems of gender and declensional type to produce the
>same type of complex and frustrating synthectosemia that it does in those
>two languages.

Yes, but that's what makes it more: my own (IE!) language Dutch has no
cases, except in personal pronouns, like English (we - us, he - him
etc.).

>adpositions. Indeed, the Hungarian case system is complemented by a large
>inventory of more precise postpositions which, like their counterparts in
>Finnish, co-occur with nouns in specific cases and can also be inflected
>for case and person:
>
>elé '(to) in front of' eló´t '(at) in front of' eló´l 'from in front of'
>(cf. Finnish eteen, edessä, edestä)
>
>alá '(to) under' alatt '(at) under' alól 'from under'
>(cf. Finnish alle, alla, alta)

Yes. I found this useful page http://www.yudit.org/magyar/Helyhat.html
which illustrates that graphically. 

-- 
Ruud Harmsen <rha@rudhar.com> - http://rudhar.com

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