Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)

> Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> G'day y'all, I just have a few questions for you.
>
> In my conlang, tentatively called Ajuk, I've got seven cases:
> Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive, Vocative, Ablative, and
> Instrumental. I've gotten to the point where I have to divvy up the
> preposition structure, and I realize that each in a language with case
> the nouns in a prepositional phrase have to go into a certain case,
> depending on the preposition and the meaning intended to be assigned to
> it.
.
Jumapeù has four cases and each preposition govern some of them.  Cases are:
agentive, pacientive, genitive and a third core case I don't know yet how to
call it.

Agentive, Pacientive and th third case are core cases.  Given the voice of
the verb, intransitive verbs could use either agentive or pacientive (or
even the third case if made pasive).  The third case means here something
used as reference but with is not directly involved in the acction.

Genitive is used as posesive.

When prepositions are used, they govern one (rarely) or more cases.  Spacial
prepositions (like "in", "on", "besides", and "out of"), use pacientive for
location and the third case for destiny.  And there are special uses:
"besides" + agentive means "with" (company), and "in" with genitive means
"at X's place".

-- Carlos Th