Re: a grammar sketch...

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 06:34:56PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Traditionally, "here" is in dative case and "flowers" in accusative, or
> > > as
> > > we are talking active langs here, objective case.
> [snip]
> > I thought of that, except (as H.S. Teoh has done, rather more coherently)
> > "accusative" and "dative" seem somehow wrong, because the *point* of the
> > action is for "her" to have the flower, not for the flower to belong to
> > "her," so "her" is in some sense the recipient of the action.  :-/  I
> > *know* I'm saying this poorly.
> [snip]
>
> Heh. The peril of replying to the previous message without reading this
> one first :-P  I was all excited because I noticed that your accomplice
> case coincides with one of the usages of my conlang's conveyant case. I
> guess that wasn't really a coincidence :-)
Well, I do remember skimming your messages, but I wasn't paying attention
to details.  So I thought that this would be pretty similar to how you
had handled things, but it looks like I stole outright.  <wince>  I'm
going to have to figure out some other case system but I'm out of ideas
for now, so I'll probably work on it later.  Ah well.  :-p

YHL