Re: CHAT: Back on the list; Anti-conlanging bigots

Anton Sherwood wrote:
>"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> > one day we were discussing how GB handles case marking, and the
> > question arose whether there are any languages whose adpositions
> > assign nominative case.  I mentioned that I knew off the top of my
> > head of no natural languages which marked case in that way, though
> > I did know of a constructed language [Esperanto] that did this. . . .
>
>um . . . remind me?
Hmm, as some people on this list may be aware, Tairezazh and Steianzh
violate this rule by having prepositions followed by the nominative*. Now,
in Kalini Sapak the accusative is the most basic case (used as the lexical
form, as vocative etc). So, does this mean that it be unnatural to have
adpositions govern accusative? It'd feel to me extremely weird to have the
adpositions govern the nominative (otherwised strictly reserved for
subjects), and I really don't want to have all adpositions govern genitive.

                                                Andreas

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