Re: cases

 --- Peter Clark <peter-clark@...> wrote: > On
Saturday 30 November 2002 09:09 pm, Florian
> Rivoal wrote:
> > I am considering creating an inflected conlang (i
> have not started at all,
> > just thinking of it). But i have a problem: I
> don't know much about cases.
> > I could create some out of nowhere(i maybe i will
> for some) for my lang,
> > but i would like first to know what existing
> natlangs or conlang have. I am
> > only familiar with five of them:
>         Well, you could start with the FAQ. :)
> (enamyn.free.fr/conlang/faq.html,
> search for "Introduction to Cases.") It's in
> desperate need of revision and
> polishing, but it's a start.
>
> > first question : Am i right with these 5?
>         Well, that's one possible system, out of
> many. I think the bare minimum is
> three (assuming an accusative system); nominative,
> accusative, and
> oblique/genitive/dative (pick one). English, for
> instance, has case remnants:
> accusative and genitive show up in the pronouns
> (me/my) as well as the 's
> possessive ending. If there are langs (con- or nat-)
> that only have two, I'd
> be interested in hearing about it.
well, bac has two ( altho it has three forms, as both
case and definiteness are marked on the same part of
the stem and the middle form is ambiguous )

anyway, they are :

~direct ( subject of a verb, adverbial function )
~oblique ( adjectival function, fronted form )

basically, if a noun comes after another noun which it
modifies, or before the first subject of a sentence to
modify the whole sentence, it goes in the oblique. if
it comes before a verb as one of the agents involved
in the verb's action, or after a verb to modify the
action of the verb, it goes in the direct

there isn't a case for the object of a verb because (
as i've said many times ) bac verbs don't have objects

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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