Re: Prepositional phrases

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:56:04 -0800 Aidan Grey <frterminus@...>
writes:
>   I'm working on Aelya prepositional phrases at the
> moment, and I wondered how you folks handle them in
> your language? In particular, do you have creative
> ways for handling the same sort of situation as my
> Aelya examples show?
>
>   To the forest: tauran
>                  forest-ALL
-

wa'goresp-a
to'forest-the

>   From the forest: tauro
>                    forest-ABL
-

nga'goresp-a
from'forest-the

>   In the forest: tauras
>                  forest-LOC
-

ta'goresp-a
in'forest-the

>   Into the forest: min    daure
>                    in-ALL forest-OBL
-

wa'taur goresp-a
to'inside forest-the

>   Out of the forest: my     thaure
>                      in-ABL forest-OBL
-

nga'taur goresp-a
from'inside forest-the

>   Outside the forest: os      taure
>                       out-LOC forest-OBL
-

ra'goresp-a
out'forest-the

>    Through the forest: trea      mei    dauren
>                        thru-PERL in-OBL forest-GEN
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ta'dratz goresp-a
in'passing forest-the

>   Do you use just a simple preposition (or
> postposition) with cases marking motion or direction,
> like Latin? Or do you use some other system?
>   Aidan
-

Rokbeigalmki works on what i call a 'broken case' system.  The basic
'preposition' words are case-prefixes attached to the nouns.  However,
when they 'double up' to express a more complex idea, they break off from
the noun, and the second prefix becomes it's _long form_, the /a(?)/
becomes /Or/.  This is a noun form, for instance _ta'_ means "in",
_taur(-a)_ means "(the) inside".  The only exception to this is _dratz_,
which is a normal verb-noun root meaning "pass", which is used like a
long 'preposition' in compounds meaning 'through', 'around', 'beyond',
etc.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "don't you hate it when your character is smarter than you are?"