Re: Noun case?
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 4:43 |
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On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:05:21 -0400, Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>
wrote:
>I was considering creating a language that has nominal cases distinct from
>verbal cases. In such a language, you'd get something like:
>
>dream-3s.Present animal-pl.NominalAccusative "he is one who dreams of
>animals"
>
>dream-3s.Present animal-pl.VerbalAccusative "he is dreaming of animals"
>
>Is that possible/plausible/already been done? Am I breaking anadewism? If
>not, what would this be called? Is it another way of looking at something I
>already knew about/didn't realize existed?
>
>~wright
It seems to me that the difference may be one of aspect: the Nominal
variety is tenseless, while the Verbal one is progressive. The unusual
things (to me) are putting the verb's aspect on the object and putting it
between the plural marker and the case marker. I have no idea if that's
been done before, although someone has put the verb's tense on one of its
arguments in a conlang. Peter Clark?
Jeff