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

From:Markus Miekk-oja <m13kk0@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 26, 2005, 15:16
>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. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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