Re: Crazy Cases

Joe wrote:

>Has anyone ever thought of different types of locative, as seperate cases?
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So essentially, the locative agrees with the nature (case/verbness etc.)
of whatever it's modifying?

Pidse has something like this, except not as thorough. There are two
kinds of each noun, whose name comes from the fact that a defined
modifier will modify a defined sentence and an undefined modifier will
define an aorist (undefined) sentence. A modified direct object and an
unmodified subject will have Defined forms of the noun; unmodified
objects and modified subjects take Undefined forms. Modifiers agree in
root with what they modify, regardless of what the modifier or modifiee
is (direct objects and subjects are not counted as modifiers of the verb).

So yes, while they still need to be near each what they modify (I
haven't decided whether modifiers go before or after what they modify),
there is an agreement of sorts.

Examples (only vaguely influenced by Pidse which is still too young to
do anything this complex. These are also only possibilities):

iI- preceeds an undefined form; a- marks nominative; o- marks
accusative; oi- marks locative

oiCar aMan eat oSandwich
loc-def.car nom-def.car def.eat acc-def.sandwich
The man in the car has eaten the sandwich.

aiIman eat oiiIcar oiIsandwich
nom-undef.car def.eat loc-undef.car acc-undef.sandwich
The man has eaten the sandwich that was in the car.

aiIman eat oSandwich oiCar
nom-undef.car def.eat acc-def.sandwich loc-def.car
The man has eaten the sandwich while in the car.

aiIman iIeat oSandwich oiiIcar
nom-undef.car undef.eat acc-def.sandwitch loc-undef.car
The man ate the sandwich while in the car.

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