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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 . . . >
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> > > 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