Compound cases, or case-marked prepositions (was Re: Old Nindic to Classical Modern Nindic)

Hallo!

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 05:36:13 -0500,
"Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> wrote:

> From:    =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
> > This system was inspired by Northeast Caucasian
> > languages which do similar tricks, only with postpositions
> > (which are considered case endings by some, resulting in enormous
> > case counts).
>
> But Suffixaufnahme* is not the reason that NEC languages are said
> to have huge case inventories. See my other post about the test
> for distinguishing a case from a postposition.
Did I say that???  With "this system", I referred to the way
prepositions are case-marked in Old Albic.  That I combine this
kind of marking with Suffixaufnahme is another matter.  I know
for sure that Suffixaufnahme and bimorphemic local case markers
as in NEC are two entirely different things.  (Do NEC languages
have Suffixaufnahme at all?)  I am also aware of my case-marked
prepositions being different from NEC compound local cases;
they are only *inspired* by the latter in some way.

Greetings,

Jörg.