Re: Case

At 09:28 -0700 14.7.1999, Matt Pearson wrote:

>
>You're probably right.  But "instrumental" is a more common case name
>than "perlative", so I'll stick with the former.  "Perlative" sounds
>like one of those cases you only find in languages like Finnish, alongside
>the essive, inessive, abessive and whatnot.  :-)
>
>Matt.
There is no "perlative" in Finnish; there is a _translative_ case, but it
denotes the result of a change, as in _tulee vanhaksi_ "s/he grows old".  I
always thought it extremely cool (and strange) to have a special case for
that notion!

Sanskrit uses the instrumental for "through" in the spatial sense, BTW, so
that seems in order.

 "Perlative" somehow sounds strange even to a Latinist, somehow...  Ray?

/BP

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