Comparing Grammatical Forms of the cases of the Latin and English Noun

Latin	English
Amicus (friend); the stem is amico-. The noun of the second declension	Friend
Case	Singularis	Pluralis	Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	amicus	amici	Nom.	friend	friends
Gen.	amici	amicorum	Gen.	friend	friends
Dat.	amico	amicis	Dat.	friend	friends
Acc.	amicum	amicos	Acc.	friend	friends
Voc.	amice	amici	Voc.	friend	friends
Abl.	amico	amicis

 

Critics by O.H.Jespersen.

It is seen from the example that the English Noun does not have a grammatical paradigm of its declension. Consequently, if there is no signs of material expression of changes (Grammatical Form), if there is no opposition or properly correlated relations, then there can not be a proper Grammatical Category as there is no base for it. It is the first drawback. Though O.H.Jespersen considers the Case as a Category of English. Then there is another drawback which is the lack of attention to the relations of possession that has a material expression in the grammatical form of the Possessive Case.

 

3). There are four cases. The principle of Syntactic Function.

Four cases in the light of the approach are stipulated by the syntactic position of the Noun in the Sentence. The English Noun can take the positions of the Subject, Attribute, Direct Object, Indirect Object. Consequently there are proper cases distinguished. They are presented in the table 3.4.

Table 3.4