Re: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others)

Patrick Dunn wrote:
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> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Robert Hailman wrote:
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> > 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?
Same way "somewhere" works... You say "He ran somewhere", as in the
place is not known. In Ajuk you say "He ran sometime", the time of the
running is not known. I actually derived the word the same way
"somewhere" is derived in English. I've got "zom", meaning some, which
is the only word I blatantly stole from English, and then you add the
question word "van", or "when", to make "zomvan", litteraly "somewhen".
You also have "zom" + "vod" (where) = "zomvod" (somewhere). You put them
in the appropriate case, for example one of the pronouns in the dative
case means "at the time of", so to say "at the time of some time", you'd
put "zomvan" in the dative case: "zomvanaj".

The dative is the most common for the time pronouns, but I've got
"until" in the accusative, so you could say "thozho", which is "thozh"
(then) in the accusative case, to mean until then. I've also got "during
the course of" in the genitive and "from the time of" in the ablative,
but the latter is only useful in past tense constructs. With the time
pronouns, you don't need the pronouns because there only is one time
pronoun in each case.

I've also go reason and manner pronouns, but I think I'm going to make
those adverbs because I don't see they could possible end up taking more
than one case.. what more use is there for "that manner" than a phrase
such as "in that manner"?

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Robert