Re: definition of obliqueness

J. P. Blevins (jpb39@cam.ac.uk)
Tue, 26 May 1998 10:12:26 +0100

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At 03:08 PM 5/26/98 +0900, helee wrote:
>I also want to know the historical background of "obliqueness."
>

The notion of 'obliqueness' as it applies to case can be traced at least to
the Ancient Greek grammarians, who distinguished 'slanted' or 'oblique'
cases like genitive and dative from 'direct' or 'straight' cases like
nominative and accusative.  You will find a concise history and some
references in Blake's _Case_ (CUP:1994), esp. chapter 2.

-Jim

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