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

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]