Re: Non-Human Features?
| From: | Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 8:24 |
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>> Motion - Transitive
>> I've got allative (towards) and ablative (away from) variants of various
>> spatial cases. But in the Morgenon and Ilgoen languages there's a
>> transitive (through) motion form.
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>"Translative" is the usual name, as "transitive" means something else
>(verbs which have objects).
I thought "translative" meant the case taken when one thing turns into
another thing. Grape juice turns into wine-TRANS. I use the hell out of
this one in Omurax, and I hope I'm using the right one!
To go "through" something involves the "PERlative". I haven't used that in
any project, but I have written about the Accusative being used
for "perlative" senses in Rhean.
M