Re: Alien conlang idea

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:20:25 +0100, Peter Bleackley
<Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:

>Suppose we then have the nouns slf (I), kns (dog), skl (bone), tld (child)
>and the verbs e_a_ (have) _i__ (give) __uo (undergo) oa_e (receive), then
>
>eslaf otalde silf knuso tild skulo okanse
>
>I-have child-receive I-give dog-undergo child-give bone-undergo
dog-receive
>
>means, "I give a dog to my child, who gives it a bone."
>
>Pete
__uo 'Undergo' and oa_e 'receive' work like cases as far as I can tell.

Is there an example where a noun marked with 'uo' wouldn't make sense as
the experiencer of the appropriate verb, or where 'oae' wouldn't make sense
in the dative case? I could see 'give' as the agent/essive as well, though
I wouldn't conclude that just from this example.

--Noktakanto

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