Re: THEORY: Case stacking; was: Re: THEORY: genitive vs. construct case/izafe

Since I've not provided alot of actual *conlang* content lately, I thought I'd
mention Meghean's case stacking:

To give a traditional account, Meghean has three cases; nominative (unmarked),
accusative (-o suffix), and possessive (-i- infix). So, eg, _pera_ "human
(nom)", _perao_ ['peraw] "human (acc)", and _peira_ "human's". However, when a
possessive's head is in accusative case, the possessive echoes the accusative
ending, as in _do dhamhoo peirao_ "in the house of a human".

(The form _dhamhoo_ is, as you all will have guessed, pronounced ['DaB~ow].)

However, native grammarians do not think of it this way; they think of the
nominative as the base form of the noun, to which any of four linearly
independent modifications can be added (for a total of 16 forms), those
modifications being accusative, possessive, definite, and plural.

                                               Andreas