Re: Re[4]: [tied] Re: Marked nominative

Brian:

>I don't have an opinion on the cross-linguistic frequency of
>nominative case marking; I don't know enough outside IE. It
>wouldn't surprise me at all if it were less common than
>unmarked nominatives.

Then let's just get along, 'kay. Hugs?

>But your example was a poor one, since the languages that you mention have
>lost all case marking, and the implicit claim that French lost the
>nominative marker more easily than it lost
>other case markings is simply wrong.

Alright. I've been reformed. But what of Italian, Portuguese and
the like?


- gLeN

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