Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> At 20:04 07/06/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Robert Hailman wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe. I've got a word meaning "some time", and it's a pronoun, so I
> >> feel that "at some time" would be that word put in the same case as
> >> nouns in preposition phrases beginning with the preposition equivalent
> >> to the English use of "at" pertaining to time.
> >
> >Hmm.  Sounds intersting.  How does a pronoun meaning "some time" work?
> >
>
> I guess, just like Moten uses pronouns for "this, that, yon place" and
> "this, that, yon time". Their declined versions are often used adverbially
> to mean "here", there, from here, now, then, etc..." but they can even be
> used adjectivally (their genitives in fact) like purely spatial or temporal
> demonstratives (like "the house of that time").
>
Yes, they can have that use too in Ajuk, when they are in a noun phrase,
in the same way, when you put the genitive in a noun phrase. "Nomepasi
thozhi ladesh" means "our car of that time", meaning the car we had
then.

For example:
Nomepas rojepasama nomepasi thozhi ladesho: We drove our car of that
time
As opposed to:
Nomepas rojepasama nomepasi ladesho thozhaj: We drove our car at that
time.

The first example means the car we were driving was the one that we
owned, the second one means that at that time we were driving our car,
regardless of specifically which car of ours it is: The one we own now,
or the one we owned then. It could very well be the same car, but in the
first example that's not possible.

--
Robert