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From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 12:23 AM
Subject: 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 )
I suppose that's marking the general case of the whole phrase. Hell, I'm
pretty ignorant myself, here. But I think that case is something that is
flexible, really. But I don't know.
> * 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>|.
>
>
> --
> AA
>