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Czech, Polish, Greek? case heavy langs

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Medulin
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 Message 33 of 38
14 November 2013 at 2:47am | IP Logged 
Order of cases in Croatian:

N
G
D
A
V(ocative)
L(ocative)
I(instrumental)
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Zireael
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 Message 34 of 38
14 November 2013 at 11:35am | IP Logged 
This thread prompted me to re-check the order of cases in Polish.
N
G
D
Acc
Instr
Loc
V

(although personally, I used to swap G and D in my Polish grammar classes at school)

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samfrances
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 Message 35 of 38
14 November 2013 at 12:22pm | IP Logged 
As someone who's never learned a heavily case inflected language before, may I ask: what difference does it make what order you list the cases in?
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Zireael
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 Message 36 of 38
14 November 2013 at 1:04pm | IP Logged 
samfrances wrote:
As someone who's never learned a heavily case inflected language before, may I ask: what difference does it make what order you list the cases in?


I'd guess none, as most of my teachers never picked up on me swapping G and D around :)
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Chung
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 Message 37 of 38
14 November 2013 at 4:41pm | IP Logged 
samfrances wrote:
As someone who's never learned a heavily case inflected language before, may I ask: what difference does it make what order you list the cases in?


Sort of.

There's a tendency in European pedagogy to list cases aping the convention started when teaching Ancient Greek (see here for discussion)

The only constant is that nominative is the first case listed, the sequence afterwards varies. I've had expressed before my annoyance at this mimicry/copy-catting/ripping-off before (see here for my comments on the matter)

I've seen an argument that one should learn a language's cases (if applicable) by frequency or likelihood of usage. It follows that one could start with vocative (if it exists in that language) since one addresses others with it. Another approach that I saw was when starting to learn Finnish I was advised to tackle cases per the sequence gathered when found in corpus analysis here.

Edited by Chung on 18 November 2013 at 9:20pm

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Марк
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 Message 38 of 38
14 November 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged 
Zireael wrote:

I'd guess none, as most of my teachers never picked up on me swapping G and D around :)

Правильно. Родительный идет за дательным.


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