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From: alderson@netcom18.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Tendency of Inflections to Disappear - Why?
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In article <4v2ee4$7oc@oden.abc.se> m9548@abc.se (Kjell Rehnstroem) writes:

>It would be interesting to know if there is a modern language in a written
>form that has added new case endings.

Modern Lithuanian has more cases than Old Lithuanian (16th C.).

Modern Georgian may have more cases than Old Georgian (3rd. C.), but they may
still be analyzable as postpositions instead.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
