Re: Looking for a case: counting

Shreyas Sampat wrote:
> My intuition tells me that "times" is not seving a nouny purpose here;
> "many times" is an adverb that just happens to look like a noun.
The -s in some adverbs like "always" is historically the genitive.  I
suspect the same thing is going on here, except in this case it would be
genitive *plural*.  "I threw the ball of many times".

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