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[jbovlaste] Re: grammatical constituents



2009/9/4 Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:
> The terms "subject" and "object" are artifacts of the Greek and Latin
> grammarians whose foundation we build on. Had English grammar been based on
> Sanskrit grammar, we would probably have numbered places. Sanskrit has eight
> cases, which are numbered 1-7 in Sanskrit grammar (the vocative considered
> something else and not assigned a number).

But "subject" is not really a case. It's not the same as the
"nominative" case, despite the general correlation.