Re: Construct Case

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:06:51 -0700, Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> wrote:

>One of my projects, Ekmartenkar, has tons of suffixaufnahme. Genitive
>case requires it, while some cases (locative, instrumental, manner) may
>or may not use it depending on whether the noun is directly associated
>with another noun.
The American TV show _Sesame Street_ has a song "One of these things is not
like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong."  When designing
Minhyan last month, it hit me for the first time that the genitive case is
different in kind from the other cases, which typically describe the role of
their noun phrase in relation to the verb.  Accordingly, Minhyan lacks a
genitive case but has a possessive adjective form instead.

Best regards,

Jeffrey
http://www.langmaker.com/