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Re: Conlang Shadows

From:takatunu <takatunu@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 7:09
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. ;-) <<< 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.