Re: Case

> >On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:17:57 -0400, nicole
> ><now-im-nothing@...>
> >wrote:
> >>I'm just curious, but those of you who do use case in your language,
> >how
> >>many do you have?  Where does it go from being "cool" to just plain
> >>unworkable?
>
Nova has 10 or 11, one is the vocative case which together with some
verbs form a distinctive group of direct address forms which I will
probably treat as different than normal forms.  Nova moves most of
what I had had as verb voices to noun cases.  In my analysis of case
I decided that case expressed the relationship(s) between arguments.
So there is a reflexive case, a reciprocal case, a passive case, and
so on.

Feorran has four cases, Relative, Absolute, Genitive, and Prepositional.

My unfinished Adenan lgs will probably distinguish between subject and
object forms or alternately Relative (ergative + genitive) and Absolute
forms but that all remains to be decided.

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