Re: Noun Cases
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 29, 2004, 17:40 |
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* Javier BF said on 2004-02-29 15:12:31 +0100
> I think the label "causative" would suit better a case that marked the
> 'causer' of a causative verb ("He made me do it" might be expressed in
> some language as "he-CAUSER I-ERG it-ACC do-PAST", something like "I
> did it _caused by_ him").
Taruven does just that, even having a set of verbs that wants its
subject to be in this case. It is one of the features in Taruven that
seems to work best (still struggling with relativization and it seems
the passive is abandoning ship.)
However, the cases of the embedded sentence doesn't change at all, thus
"he-CAUSER I-NOM it-ACC do-CAUSATIVE-PAST".
t.