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Re: 2d case system

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 21, 2003, 8:22
Peter Bleackley wrote:
> My wife's brother inherits his father's spear. > AG AIP AP PG PIP PP
Uatakassi would put "brother" in the ergative case and "wife" would have genitive *and* ergative case on it, thus wife-genetive-ergative, while "spear" would be absolutive, and "father" genitive (or you could think of it as genetive-absolutive, but absolutive is a null ending). When one noun modifies another, it takes the case that shows that relationship, and also takes the same case as the modified noun, hence, "wife" has genitive to show it's relationship to "brother" and ergative to "agree" with "brother" -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42