Re: Conlang Shadows

Jonathan Knibb <j_knibb@...> wrote:

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takatunu wrote:
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I can make any noun into a case: a POT when I'm cooking (or confining
or preserving), a DOOR when I'm exiting (or closing or slamming), a
PROJECTILE when I'm throwing, a LANGUAGE when I'm talking. Pisina is
the 1000-case language. ;-)
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For interest, and without intended criticism: how does this tag
differ from an instrumental case marker?
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How dare you write that my uberfantastic lang design is not even worth your
criticism? :-)
This tag shows that the noun works in the specific way you expect it to work
when asociated with a specific predicate. It's a way to make the language
kind of "all-noun."
Example:

"I eat with a fork out of a plate for two hours in this restaurant although
the food is bad."

I make each of these adpositions/conjunctions/whateverstuff above the
following way:

with : @operating+tag
out of : @tap+tag
for : @duration+tag
in : @place+tag
although : @concede+tag

I don't mind if you call the tag "instrumental" or simply "adverbal" but
then you could also call all other cases and adverb endings and adpositions
"instrumental" or "adverbal." In other words: the Hebrew adposition be- in
baregel or baderekh and Japanese clitic -de in -de aru or sorede are used to
show more than an "instrumental".

µ.