----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: Help in Determining Asha'ille Typology
> Emaelivpeith JS Bangs:
> >BTW, Asha'ille seems to have case to me. What is 'ne' if not an
accusative
> >case marker? It doesn't have to be an affix to be a case.
>
> I'd always viewed |ne| as a content-empty word that separates the
> subject-nouns from the object-nouns, because otherwise with the VSO
> structure you wouldn't have been able to tell which was which if there was
> just one noun or more than two. If it does count as a case marker, it's
> the only one Asha'ille has. :)
>
I doubt it. What about pre/postpositions? They seem to function as case
markers to me.
> --
> AA
>