Re: case-marked experiencer

>In a message dated 07/9/02 4:39:35 AM, eychenne.j@WANADOO.FR writes:
<< I am thinking of the number of cases I will use in sabyuka, and I am
wondering about a special case for experiencer. I know that a lot of
languages use different strategies to mark it ( for instance dative in
german with certain verbs) but I have never heard about a special case
in natlangs. So has anyone among you tried to use such a case?
Another way I had thought about is to use an ergative/absolutive
opposition so that :
I look at = I make myself see. >>

Elanagiuo does just that, as a matter of fact I came up with that
construction from the usage of the word to look, which would be rendered as
follows:

kovadukopadu

ko - 1st person sing. pronoun particle
vadu - root of evaduo, to see
ko - see above
padu - pres. sing. root of epaduo, to render or make

I-see-me-make

In this case, I would think, that affixes and reflexive pronouns are better
than an unique case in that circumstance. Perhaps it would helpt to consider
the way Esperanto treats that situation: Mi vidigas min, or Mi vidigxas. The
equivelant of the -ig- or -igx- infix seems to make the most sense to me in
the circumstance.

Jake


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