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

>Hi!
>
>Markus Miekk-oja <m13kk0@...> writes:
> > I'd suspect partitives, if used in constructions like 'a wall of
> > stone' (wall-WHATEVER stone-PART-WHATEVER), and ablatives (the man-nom
> > Greenwich-from-nom) and generally any cases that are allowed to be
> > used as attributes of nouns are next in line to receive it, after
> > genitives. Languages like Kayardild case stack in rather insane ways,
> > and can mark every word in a subclause with the same case ("I heard
> > that he is out of town" -> I heard that-ACC he-ACC is-ACC out-ACC
> > of-ACC town-ACC + the other internal case endings there'd be there)...
>
>Really!  And that's a natlang?
>
>I once planned this for a conlang of mine that never made it (S4 or
>S6, I think) in order to allow *really* free word order, i.e., any
>order for words in any sentence with any nesting depths would be ok,
>but I abandoned the thought because it seemed too wild to me...
Kayardild and friends have totally free word order too (they're known as
nonconfigural) with discontinuous constituents and whatnot.

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