Re: 2d case system
| From: | Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 21, 2003, 7:11 |
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> That's kinda an "urban legend" of linguistics, but I do know
> the Finno-Ugric (Hungarian, Finnish etc.) languages have a
> two-dimensional local case system. Hungarian, for instance:
My Coatlalopeuh also has a two-dimensional case system of the sort you
describe, though it's formed of a position morpheme and a process
morpheme. Example:
panuc /'pa.nuk/ bird
panucou /'pa.nu.k^hu/ bird-LOC
panucoushii /'pa.nu.k^hoS.,ji/ "away from the
bird"
panucoushiiki /'pa.nu.k^hoS.,ji.ki/ "out from inside the
bird"
panucoushiihina /'pa.nu.k^hoS.,ji.hi.na/ "away from beside the
bird"
So it only requires one direction, but the second can provide a lot of
data.
(I suppose it could be said that the C. case system is hierarchical;
there are 4 "core" cases, 4 "processes" of the locative, 15 further
"positions" of the locative, and 12 "processes" of the oblique.)
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Shreyas Sampat