Re: Cases, again
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 30, 2004, 20:24 |
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* Mark J. Reed said on 2004-03-30 22:13:11 +0200
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:14:27PM +0100, Ray Brown wrote:
> > > Or maybe the article inflects for case instead of the noun? Are
> > > there any real languages that do something like this?
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> Yes, Basque. Bare nouns cannot be inflected; only noun phrases can
> be, and the inflection goes on the "determiner".
And when there is no standalone "determiner" in the noun phrase, a
determining clitic/suffix attaches ityself to the leftmost word in the
noun phrase (unless this is a name of some sort). Really elegant system,
I'm tempted to use it in some conlang or other (other than Taruven)...
t.