Re: O tempora! Naming the case.

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:02:13PM -0800, bob
> thornton wrote:
> > Perhaps something like temporative?
> Locotemporative?
>
> I don't think so.  I did consider running "temporal
> locative" together
> into "temporalocative", but that's still too long.
>
> It's not so much that "temporal" ends in "-al"
> instead of "-ive"; I mean,
> "instrumental" is a well-established case name.   It
> just doesn't feel
> caseish somehow.  Just a subjective thing.
Question: What does this case do? Cases are
interesting and confusing at the same time.

> It's growing on me, though.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. :)
No worries.

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