Re: Got to thinkin' about word order

--- 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?

PeterP