Re: [tied] Re: Nominative: A hybrid view

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:32:43 +0000, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:
>
>> The locative doesn't always mean "in". It may be used for a wide
>variety of nuances. It could just as well mean "at father" or "next to
>father" or "beside father". These are more natural usages of this noun
>and they would all use the same locative marker that you protest.
>
>As a native speaker of a language where the locative is still alive
>and kicking, may I add that its typical uses in Polish include "after
>father" and "about father". The latter, I suppose, is the most
>frequent of 'em all.

One thing about Polish is the very low frequency of the dative case. For
instance, I rarely get the chance to show off my knowledge that the o-stem
dat.pl. ending -om (-iom) has replaced all other dat.pl. endings in Polish.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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