From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: Q's abuot trigger again
> Quoting Javier BF <uaxuctum@...>:
>
> > >> Of
> > >> course, "in his bed" is inessive, but it's also a place, and that's
why
> > it
> > >> can be locative as well, right?
> > >
> > >I'm unfamiliar with this particular piece of terminology, but as far as
I
> > >understand it, Javier's using "locative" for mandatory and "inessive"
for
> > >optional specifications of place.
> >
> > No, actually, since in the same paragraph I was
> > mentioning "locative object" ("the garden" of
> > the famous example), I chose the word "inessive"
> > so as to avoid repeating the word "locative" or
> > having to say something like "locative locative"
> > to emphasize that then I was referring to places
> > seen as locations of an event rather than as
> > affected participants of it.
>
> OK, thanks for the clarification.
>
> Andreas
Me too. Thanks.