Re: Help in Determining Asha'ille Typology

Emaelivpeith JS Bangs:
>>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.
Such as "I eat food _at home_"?  At first glance it looks perhaps like a
case marker:

    Vae'cresin échiv en'i ne chodál.
    where home eat   self OBJ: food

But does this remain true if |vae| is really apply to the entire
prepositional phrase, which is this case happens to be a single word?  The
sentence "I eat food at your home" would be:

    Échiv en'i ne chodál vae'ne* cresin sordhi kae.
    eat   self OBJ: food where OBJ: home your /where

(The phrase is obliged to come at the end of the sentence because it's more
than one word, in which case it's obliged to come at the beginning.)  I
think of |vae...kae| as HTML tags marking an adverbial phrase that
describes where the topic takes place.  <where></where>

How would you analyze this?  Is there room for more than one valid way of
explaining this?  (I do realize that my ignorance may be showing and that
I'm just completely wrong.  :P )

* This |ne| isn't acting in the same function as the first |ne| of the
sentence.  Tangible possessives are formed with the pattern |ne <possessee>
s<possessor's conjugation>|.


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