Greek Case Forms

Jay Adkins JAdkins264 at aol.com
Mon Apr 26 07:08:35 EDT 1999


Dear B-Greekers,

I had read recently that "Greek originally had ablative, locative and 
instrumental case forms." and that "the eventual squeezing out of the 
dative case begun during the Hellenistic period."  So, can someone tell me 
if modern Greek still uses the dative case at all and what exactly are the 
cases used in modern Greek?  Is this pairing down due to increasing use of 
prepositions?  Or is it just the simplification of the language?

Jay Adkins



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