Re: case problems
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 28, 2003, 22:11 |
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--- Robert Jung <RobertMJung@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem. I'm creating a conlang
> without any verbs or adjectives - just nouns
> and case suffixes.
>
> I've got a problem with this sentence: 'I-NOM
> give him-DAT the book-ACC'. In my lang, I've
> got: 'The book is a gift from me to him'. I've
> got 'me' as agent in the elative case ('from' -
> is that right?), and 'him' in the dative case
> ('to') - but I've been thinking 'him' should be
> in dative and some other case meaning 'toward',
> too.
Well, I suppose you could use either for "him".
If you're stressing the action of giving, you
might use the towards form; if you're simply
describing the event, the plain dative should do:
the book a gift from me towards him
the book a gift from me to him
You could parlay this into what passes in verbing
languages as a progressive v. momentary
distinction.
Padraic.
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la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.
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