Re: Help with case names

Once upon a time, Rinya had like a million cases. These
are the names I used, and the functions they had. The more
unusual ones come at the end. It might give you some ideas.

nominative           subject
accusative           direct object
dative               indirect object; to, for
genitive             ownership (with or without possession)
possessive           possession (without ownership)
partitive            part of X, some, not all of
inessive             the inside of something; in
elative              movement from inessive; out of, from
illative             movement to inessive; into
adessive             being close or on something; on, at
ablative             movement from adessive; from
allative             movement to adessive; to
abessive             without, lacking
concomitant          opposite of abessive; have
essive               indicates a roll; as, like
prolative            through
translative          indicates change of roll; become
comitative           expresses with whom X is located;
                     with, together with
instrumental         the instrument with which something is
                     done or the reason why something happens.
                     Denotes agent or origin of action; with,
                     by means of, through
subessive            under, below
superessive          on top of, over, above
superlative          movement ro superessive; to the top of
aversive             what is to be feared or avoided.
comparative          'than' in comparisons
transative           across, to the other side, over
interessive          between, among
selative             along
perlative            during
postessive           behind, after
antessive            in front of, before
ultraessive          beyond
sublative            in under (movement towards subessive)
circessive           around
contraessive         against
coressive            (time) on the eve of, at, near at hand.
                     E.g. X-mas near at hand.
extraessive          outside (opposite of inessive)
exessive             according to
juxtessive           beside
obessive             because of, for (in the sense: 'Do it for
                     John'.) [this should rather be "benefactive",
                     shouldn't it?]

||| daniel

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