Re: Case names help
From: | Caleb Hines <cph9fa@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, August 11, 2004, 0:41 |
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@M...> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:49:22PM -0400, Trebor Jung wrote:
> > My language Kosi is very agglutinative, and I don't want to use
> > postpositions. It has about twenty cases right now, but I don't have
names
> > for the following case-meanings. Could someone please help me with their
> > scientific names?
> >
> > above, over
> superlative? :) Kidding, but maybe not really (see "comparative"
> below). None of these is official, btw. Just making them up off the
> top of my head as suggestions . . .
>
.......
>
> > compared to
> Despite its overloaded meaning, "comparative" seems logical here.
>
Actually, I believe the term is "Equative". You can find a whole list of
cases at:
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsCase.htm
~Caleb