Re: Case

>From: nicole <now-im-nothing@...>
>Reply-To: now-im-nothing@GEOCITIES.COM
>To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
>Subject: Re: Case
>Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:19:00 -0400
>
>OK, to respond to my own post, I may have come up with a solution to my
>problem, tell me if this sounds normal/possible.  (The problem was, that
>I liked have all those cases, but it just got to be a pain).  Would it
>sound possible for a language with a very extensive case system to have
>some but not all cases change into adpositions, which required a case
>all their own?  Say, for instance, all my local cases were to detach
>from the noun and become postpositions (of course, in this case, my
>prepositional case would be postpositional...but anyway), and when a
>noun was used with a postposition it required a postpositional case,
>which had zero ending?  Maybe I can explain that better...  All my other
>cases have suffixes that mark them.  If there was NO marking at all,
>then that would be postpositional case (because no suffix was left on
>the words after the local cases were detached) and all the postpositions
>that the language used would be derived from those original local
>cases.  And maybe that would be one dialect of the language, while the
>one with many cases would be a different dialect.  The dialect with
>cases might be literary, or more for the upper class, who are trying to
>retain the way the language was in olden times.  Does this sound
>reasonable?
>Sorry I explained it in such a roundabout way, but I couldn't help it.
>
>Nicole

Sounds great. I especially like the part about different systems for the
different dialects/registers. Very interesting.

Jennifer

ps. seems like I know that address from somewhere other than the mailing
list, nicole. No, I probably dreamed it. nevermind.


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