Re: Help with case names

Maija Åstrand skrev:

> Yep. Like, if you want to say that something's on the
> table, the word "table" must be in this case.
Aha! That's "Prepositional". If you mean that the case
in itself doesn't indicate the "on", but you have to
have a preposition (or postposition for that matter) and
then a case to indicate that the preposition belongs to
that word. Like:

There is a dog *on* the table:PREP.

> Another problem here is that most of the time I do not
> know at all if something is a case or derivation - but
> I can live with that. (That said, I now think this is a
> clitic morphem [clite?], not a case... "a negative clite"?)
I'm pretty sure the word is "clitic". David Crystal defines it
as "a form which resembles a word, but which cannot be used on
its own as a normal utterance because it is structurally
dependent on a neighbouring word in a construction. Examples
include the contracted forms of _be_ in English (I'm, he's)
and the pronoun _je_ in French, which must always be followed
by a verb."

I think you can throw in the genitive _-s_ in Swedish as well.
Like in "Mannen som bor i lägenheten därborta*s* hund." Lit.
"The man who lives in the apartment over there*'s* dog."

||| daniel

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