The Vocative Case in Ukrainian
bobby
ROBORR at UOTTAWA.BITNET
Sat Feb 17 06:02:01 UTC 1996
Regarding the orders NGDA etc., etc., vs. NAGD, there's an article by Allen in
Lingua (sometime in the 70's early 80's , I'm afraid I forget the exact referen
ce). For Latin and Greek, as far as I remember, the vocative is always listed
between the nominative and accusative, but maybe that's just the British class
ical tradition. It might also be of interest to note that Sanskrit gave the ca
ses straight numbers: 1 - Nom, 2- Acc, 3 - Instr, 4 - Dat, 5 - Abl, 6 - Gen, 7
- Loc. This ordering was used to capture syncretisms. The vocative does not s
eem to have rated a number at all.
Robert Orr
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