Re: A bit on Sturnan

Christopher B Wright sikayal:

> Well, I've done it. I've made a change that affects a lot of things. It
> is...the Genitive Case!
Congratulations!  I remember the excitement of adding new cases and tenses
to Yivríndil back when it was young and pliable and such things could be
done.

> Originally, I had planned on using the possessive as the genitive as
> well. I decided to scrap (or actually expand) this as I was making some
> lessons for the language. (I'm going to learn it, and this is a good way
> to do so. I'll pick up some while making the lessons and the rest by
> doing the lessons.)
I would find this more enlightening if you would elucidate the difference
between possessive and genitive in your conlang.  Perhaps one of them is
also partitive?  What defines the difference?

(The preponderance of long, latinate words in the previous sentence makes
me feel rather obfuscatory ;-) ).


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu

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