Re: Cases - and my first real translation!
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 12, 2000, 8:13 |
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Jim Grossmann wrote:
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> c) This is conlanging; although existing case names are preferred so
> that your audience can understand your descriptions, if you invent a novel
> case, you can give it a new name.
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Like I did when I wrote the chapter on Denden cases for my grammar.
There are more than 30 of them:
http://www.valdyas.org/andal/languages/denden/grammar/cases.html.
(You might expect the ornative case to be one of the cases I invented
myself, but the term is actually used in the Grammar of Limbu.)
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org