Re: cases
| From: | Jim Grossmann <steven@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 3:53 |
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My conlang, Palo, has three cases: common, genitive, and locative.
In Palo, common-case usually marks agents and patients (or entities with
copular and existential verbs).
However, when the verb is ditransitive, common-case marks the noun phrases
that stand for the agent and beneficiary, while a genitive that appears
after the obligatory clause-initial particle marks the noun phrase that
stands for the patient.
Palo locative case could be more precisely called
locative-allative-postpositional. It indicates location at, motion to or
towards, and marks all complements of postpositions. Usually, locative is
an oblique case, but it can serve as an argument for certain copular verbs.
Jim