Re: Crazy Cases

Joe wrote, 2003.04.23 15:21'jä:
>Has anyone ever thought of different types of locative, as seperate cases?
Yes, I have once. Locative and genitive variants for all grammatical cases!
To speak the truth, I dropped the idea as well. :(

>For instance:
>
>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
>
>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
This looks interesting!


>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
The big distinction here seems to be between an adverbial and an adjective
locative. Interesting, as most 'locative' roles I've seen either treat them
as both or strictly adverbial (using an lexicon entry for "located at"
instead for adjective usage).

>This could potentially be done with a Genitive case as well...
I've seen a few conlangs that do this, usually by combining the normal case
and the genitive affix. However the locative usage I haven't seen before.
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