Re: Got to thinkin' about word order

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Peter P" <no1@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "aquila_grande"

<aquila_grande@...>

> wrote:
> > I think I will go outside IE to finnish, and opt for partitive -

in

> > that language a very successfull case. It originates from an old
> > ablative, and according to the steppe hypotesis the same element

as

> > the IE ablative.
> >
> >
> The "Finnish Empire" thriving on the partitive case?
>

At least as substrate influence making the Slavs use the ablative as
(partitive) genetive?

Torsten