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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
And a last quote from "The Uralic Languages"
from the Introduction (Abondolo):
(on syncretism of case)
"
In Finnish, the accusative syncretizes with the genitive in the
singular, but with the nominative in the plural, in a manner
reminiscent of the animate/inanimate accusatives of Russian.
"
Torsten