Re: THEORY: USAGE/THEORY: Re: Case
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 16, 1999, 18:24 |
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A Rosta wrote:
re: perlative
>
> I would call this "allative", though I forget the term I used to know
> for 'motion
> towards', as opposed to 'motion to'. Quite possibly 'perlative' is a
> modern
> formation (I find neither perlat- nor perfer- in OED1). Does anyone have
> Trask's
> dictionary to hand? He tries to cite first usages, to a degree.
>
> --And.
Trask on "Perlative," in _Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in
Linguistics_:
"The case form typically expressing the path over which some movement
takes
place."
That's it!
Sally
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