[edit <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grammatical_case&action=edit§ion=1> ] Cases in English (not to be confused with Krimels)
Cases are not very prominent in modern English <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language> , except in its personal pronouns <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_pronoun> (a remnant of the more extensive case system of Old English <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_declension> ). For other pronouns, and all nouns, adjectives, and articles, case is indicated only by word order <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order> , by prepositions <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preposition> , and by the clitic -'s <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_genitive> . Taken as a whole, English personal pronouns <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_personal_pronouns> are typically said to have three morphological cases: a subjective case <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_case> (such as I, he, she, we), used for the subject of a finite verb <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_verb> and sometimes for the complement <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement_%28linguistics%29> of a copula <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula> ; an objective case <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_case> (such as me, him, her, us), used for the direct or indirect object <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_%28grammar%29> of a verb, for the object of a preposition, for an absolute disjunct, and sometimes for the complement of a copula; and a possessive case <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possessive_case> (such as my/mine, his, her(s), our(s)), used for a grammatical possessor. That said, these pronouns often have more than three forms; the possessive case typically has both a determiner <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner> form (such as my, our) and a distinct independent form (such as mine, ours). Additionally, except for the interrogative personal pronoun who, they all have a distinct reflexive <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive_pronoun> or intensive form (such as myself, ourselves). While not very prominent in English, cases feature much more saliently in many other Indo-European languages <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages> , such as Latin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin> , Greek <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language> , German <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language> , Slavic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_language> . Historically, the Indo-European languages had eight morphological cases, though modern languages typically have fewer, using prepositions and word order to convey information that had previously been conveyed using distinct noun forms. Grammatical case was analyzed extensively in Sanskrit <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit> , where it is known as karaka <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaka> . Six varieties are defined by Pāṇini <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini> , largely in terms of their semantic roles <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_role> , but with detailed rules specifying the corresponding morphosyntactic derivations: Some languages have very many cases; for example, Finnish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language> has fifteen (see Finnish language noun cases <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language_noun_cases> ) and Tsez <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsez_language> can even be analyzed as having 126 cases. Ron: As we can see, Case in English is not prominent. It works with Subjective, Objective, and Possessive. It is important to realize MoQers, Mockers and the like, that we are attempting to exchange ideas Utilizing language thought and culture which operates in terms of these cases therefore we are Hard pressed to conceptualize outside of it. Therefore we have strong tendencies to not only Heterogeneously project but culturally Anthropomorphize every concept we develop or Come into contact with. Language is the framework of intellect. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
