Re: Cases, again
| From: | Michael Martin <mdmartin@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 18, 2004, 3:20 |
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OK, first of all, thank you to everyone who answered.
If I understand correctly, the basic answer to my question of what case
to use is: it's up to me to make the rule. And, yes, my intention for
my conlang is to have prepositions, but it never occurred to me that
the exact meaning of the preposition could be dependent upon the case
of the noun it is being used with. That's something I'll have to give
some thought to.
Now, along the same lines, in a sentence like, "I went to the man's
house" my assumption would be that "man" is in the genitive and "house"
is in the dative case. Is that correct? Now what about, "we heard the
man's voice"? Would the same pattern hold? "Man" in genitive, "voice"
in dative?
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Michael David Martin, Master Mason
S. W. Hackett Lodge #574
Free & Accepted Masons of California
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