Re: Simple translation exercise?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 22, 2003, 1:10 |
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:01:53AM +0100, Ian Spackman wrote:
> It was relatively easy in Holic: I have a through-over postposition because
> the proto-language had four cases for spacial relationships (locative,
> allative, ablative, translative) which it used in combination with nouns of
> location.
That's still the case in Okaikiar: instead of pre- or postpositions,
it has nouns of location and spatial cases. But it only has three
of those four: locative, allative, and ellative (which I'm sure
is the same as your ablative). The lack of a translative case
is the problem that I need to address.
I must ponder how best to do this.
-Mark