Re: Marked nominative

From: tolgs001
Message: 22027
Date: 2003-05-17

aquila_grande wrote:

>An example is finnish.
>
>eX, käsi - hand(n.sg), käde-n (acc.sg) ihminen -
>human beeing (n.sg) ihmise-n (acc.sg) jänis -
>hare (n.sg) jänikse-n (acc.sg)
>
>avain - key (n.sg.) avaime-n (acc.sg)

It seems to me that the Finnish -n has
the same function as -(vowel)t in Hungarian.

But in the Finnish examples above I see
serious changes caused by the accusative.

George