Re: CHAT: Back on the list; Anti-conlanging bigots
| From: | Matthew Pearson <matthew.pearson@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 21:48 |
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--- You wrote:
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.
--- end of quote ---
Accusative (though marked only on pronouns) is arguably the default case in English, and
we use accusative case for the complements of prepositions, so I don't see any
problem with this.
Matt.
Matthew Pearson
Department of Linguistics
Reed College
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