Re: Set of basic adpositions

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:28 AM, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:

> Well, it jogged my memory to recall modern Greek! And the notion of a 3-D
> 'adpositional grid' has got me thinking - not for Piashi, but maybe some
> other conlang ;)
gzb's spacetime postpositions form a 3-D matrix:

http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/grammar.htm#postp

The core postpositions are {o} "to, toward, until",
{i} "at, in, during", and {ř} "from, out of, since".
Prefixes mark direction or orientation and suffixes
mark proximity.  However, over time I've complexified
the system a bit further so it's not a neat 3-D grid.

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Jim Henry
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