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Re: Analogy: cases & prepositions; verbal inflection & adverbs

From:Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...>
Date:Monday, June 12, 2000, 1:28
Hmmm...
Today, I finally figured out how to make my prepositions work.  I made
them all into cases.  Every preposition except for "of", which is an
exception, has its own case.  This actually allows me to pull my lang,
Eviendad"il, into a much more cohesive whole by establishing an overall
pattern for my cases.

And, as soon as I get home, I read this post!

Sar'an ed'orir,
Matthew William Kehrt
Mathy"u "Uilly'am Cert^e

Ed Heil wrote:
> > Essentially a "case" is nothing but a preposition fused to the verb > and charged with grammatical necessity. Grammaticized, as they say. > Made into a small and fixed class and made necessary. But > semantically, cases tend to do similar work to > prepositions/postpositions. Indeed, our beloved PIE case-endings are > almost certainly the grammaticized remnants of fused postpositions. > >[snip]