Re: 2d case system

En réponse à Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

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>
> My wife's brother inherits his father's spear.
> AG AIP    AP               PG  PIP      PP
>
> Does anyone know of any language which has a similar system?
>
Not a natlang, and not as thorough as you system, but my languages Tj'a-ts'a~n
and O have something similar, though in different ways. In Tj'a-ts'a~n, there
is a "genitive marker" which marks a noun completing another (and indicates
where the completed noun is since it's a prefix or a suffix depending on
whether the possessed nouns is before or after the possessor noun), but the
possessor must still bear a case mark indicating, in this case, the nature of
the possession implied. The language also has an adjective marker which works
the same way, but creates adjectives instead of possessive nouns.

O has a construct state, or case of the *possessed* noun. Since in this case
the possessed noun stays the center of the noun phrase. the construct state
prefix is added to an inflected form (or the function case prefix is added
after the construct state prefix has been added, I don't remember the order :
(( ).

So, nothing quite like what you describe, but the idea is the same. I don't
know any language that uses such a system, but it sure is an interesting one.
It has shades of case agreement between nouns in the same noun phrases, which
is a nice feature :) .

Christophe.

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