Re: Help with case names
| From: | daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 2, 2002, 20:20 |
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Maija Åstrand skrev:
> - there is an adposition connected to X (I've been calling
> it "adpositive")
You mean you want a case indicating that there is an
adposition attached to the word? I'm not sure I understand
what you're after.
> - not X (negative?)
This is a neat case. If X were a verb, I'd call it a mood,
but if X were -- say 'bear' -- then it might be called a
case, wouldn't it? Like:
- What's that?
- Well, I know it's a bear:NEG!
:)
> -towards and from the direction of X (allative and ablative?)
At the same time? That's cool even though I suppose it wouldn't
be used very much. "Ablallative" perhaps? :) Or you could use
the same case as "through", prolative.
> -at the time of X, when X (is this perlative? even if it
> doesn't always mean so clearly "during"?)
I would use perlative for this.
> -because of X - X caused something (to happen, to be as it
> is...)
This is causative, which is a Verb Thingy (TM). Although it
would be interesting to mark it on the NP instead of on the VP.
It could be Obessive/benefactive as well, if you see it as
"I did it because of John / John caused me to do it."
||| daniel
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