Re: TERMINOLOGY: Re: another new language to check out
| From: | Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 2, 2004, 13:49 |
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On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 23:01:06 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>When you say nominative, do you mean accusative? The nominative, not mentioned
>in my previous post, is unmarked. The full declension for _steza_ "girl":
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>NOM stelza stelzan
>ACC stelzas stelzans
>DAT stelzar stelzaner
>GEN stelzai stelzain
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>Clearly, the genitive form is the odd one out. This might be related to the
fact
>that while the other cases goes back as far as I've done any work on the
family,
>the genitive is relatively recent; it arose about a millennium ago.
>
> Andreas
So the genitive is newer? Wouldn't one expect its marker, then, to be
affixed onto some already-extant form, so it appears on the outside? Or was
<stelzai> some other form with a regular plural that got reanalysed as a
case form?
(AFMCL pjaukra, it synchronically has inflectional combined case/number
morphemes, but back when they were agglutinating the order was
stem-number-case.)
Alex
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