Joseph Fatula wrote:
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> Number - Entire
> Indicating all instances of the object, as opposed to plural, singular, etc.
> Found in many of my languages. In one case, it developed from the adjective
> meaning "all" that lost most of its sounds and attached to the noun.
Can't see why not.
> Number - Natural
> Meaning a natural amount of Xs. If the object in question is normally found
> alone, it means one. If it is normally found in large groups, it means a
> large group. If the object is imaginary or impossible, it means none at
> all. Found in Teuthurev and Ilgoen.
I'm using something like this in my Latin-derived conlang, although I
just call it "paucal". It's used for
> Case - Imitative
> To mean "in the manner of X". So Tuscan cooking would be "cooking
> Tuscany-imitative". To walk like a penguin would be "walk
> penguin-imitative". Found in Morgenon and western Tunugruc languages.
How would this differ from deriving an adverb from the noun?
> Case - Ingeminate
> For a noun that is the object of the first verb and the subject of the
> second. For example, "I see *you* washing the car." "He wants *the dog* to
> go outside." This is in the Tazhnakt languages.
Sounds kind of like using an inflection in place of a relative pronoun
(although in your second example, the entire phrase "the dog to go
outside" is the object of "wants", not just "the dog").
> Case - Prescriptive
> Meaning "acting on X's orders" or "as X wishes". In the oldest Tunugruc
> languages.
>
> Case - Alternative
> Meaning "in place of X". In the continental Tunugruc languages.
>
> 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.
I'm pretty sure Finnish has that, although it's called "translative".