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Re: Cases, again

From:Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 17, 2004, 19:19
Merhaba!

Ray wrote:

"If the 5th case is a catch-all to be used without adpositions in all
situations where the other fours cases are not deemed appropriate, it will
be too ambiguous."

Too ambiguous? Language is ambiguous in general, and Tzeltal is ambiguous in
particular in this respect. It has only one preposition, ta, according to
http://www.tzeltal.org/download/smith.txt (beware: a *huge* file!).

--Trebor