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Re: a grammar sketch...

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Saturday, September 30, 2000, 2:08
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