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Nouns and adjectives had: | Nouns and adjectives had: | ||
* three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter | * three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter | ||
* four cases: nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive. | * four cases: nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive. | ||
** Some speculate that Proto-Quame originally had an intransitive-transitive alignment. The nominative and accusative may have originally been intransitive and transitive cases respectively, since stative verbs in the 3rd person singular have nominative endings, while eventive verbs in the 3rd person singular have endings similar to accusative endings. | ** Some speculate that Proto-Quame originally had an intransitive-transitive alignment. The nominative and accusative may have originally been intransitive and transitive cases respectively, since stative verbs in the 3rd person singular have nominative endings, while eventive verbs in the 3rd person singular have endings similar to accusative endings. | ||