Re: Crazy Cases

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 03:21:25PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> Has anyone ever thought of different types of locative, as seperate cases?
[snip]

Interesting idea. I suppose you *could* encode different prepositions into
a locative case morpheme... so that sitting in a car is different from
being inside a house, for example. Or you could be on a mountain, or in
it; both could be a locative ("where is he at?" "he's at the mountain").

Or more bizarrely, if your conworld is like the Ferochromon where there
are parallel spaces, you could use different words for "at" depending on
which space you're in.

> Assuming |ba| means 'man', |ku| means 'eat'(no tense), |lo| means 'car',
> |li| means 'road, and |zu| means sandwich.  |-k| is nominative and |-b| is
> accusative
This seems to be more a way of having a noun's adjective float somewhere
else in the sentence. Don't some of the Austronesian natlangs do this?

> Nomino-locative:|-t|
>
> 'the man in the car ate a sandwich'
> ku bak zub lot
> eat man.NOM sandwich.ACC car.NLOC
>
> Accuso-locative|s|:
>
> 'the man ate a sandwich that was in the car'
> ku bak zub los
> eat man.NOM sandwich.ACC car.ALOC
>
> Verbal Locative |n|:
>
> 'the man ate a sandwich in the car'
> ku bak zub lon
> eat man.NOM sandwich.ACC car.VLOC
>
> Superlocative |p|:
>
> 'the man ate a sandwich in the car, which was on the road'
> ku bak zub lon lip
> eat man.NOM sandwich.ACC car.VLOC road.SLOC
[snip]

Very interesting idea, marking a modifier for both a locative function and
a case function to agree with the noun it modifies.


T

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