Re: Construct Case

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:12:46 EDT, David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...> wrote:


>Thus, a sentence like, "The woman gave the child food in the house",
>which would be ambiguous in English, would be necessarily unambiguous
>in...the language in question.   ,
>Anyway, I thought this was neat, so I thought I'd share it.   :)
Thanks, this is neat and I will keep it in mind for future languages.

Right now in Kalisise and Minhyan there is no ambiguous counterpart to this
question. The noun phrase would modify the verb. A speaker would need to use a
relative clause for the other meaning ("The woman gave the child food that was
in the house").

For Dublex II though I've been thinking of a locative postposition that makes a
noun phrase adjectival. Something like "woman AGENT child FOCUS house
LOCATIVE-ADJ food PATIENT gave." This would be in addition to a locative case
that described the location of the verb.

- Jeffrey
http://www.langmaker.com/