"flag" for case/adposition

[Östen Dahl]

In Russian, prepositions can be doubled in a way that looks like incipient
case agreement. This shows up above all in genres like folklore, but here is
a beautiful example I just found on the Internet:

"...u kollegi u nashego u Andreja Shevchenko byla klassnaja citata..."
at colleague.GEN at our.GEN at Andrej.GEN Shevchenko.GEN be.PRET.F.SG
first-class quotation
'our colleague A.S. had a first-class quotation'

- Östen Dahl





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> On Behalf Of nigel Vincent
> Sent: den 13 juli 2006 16:07
> To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject: Re: "flag" for case/adposition
> 
> Just a quick query re Martin's endorsement of Zwicky's observation that
>   "Everything you can do with adpositions you can do with case
> inflections, and vice versa." Might suffixaufnahme or case agreement be
> an instance of something you can do with case but not with an
> adposition? What too about case attraction (arguably a kind of case
> agreement - cf a paper by Hans Vogt many years ago)?
> Nigel