Re: ? case names

Charlie wrote:
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I am looking for names for the two oblique cases in Senyecan.  I am
tentatively using "genitive" and "accusative" but those are too
limiting.  The "genitive" case is used primarily to denote no change
in position.  I used to call it the "stative" case, but then went
back to "genitive."  The "accusative" case is used primarily to
indicate change in position.  I used to call it the "motive" case,
but again wasn't satisfied with that.  I'd appreciate any
suggestions, active or invented.
 >>

Well, the tradition for most motion cases is to uses a Latin prefix
indicating direction, and then to use either "essive" (for stationary)
or "lative" (for motive).  Since you don't have a particular direction
in mind, the logical names would be just plain old "Essive" and
"Lative".  Note, though, that the term "essive" is often used for
cases such as:

She is as good *as him*.

In a language that had a specifically marked case like this (Finnish?
Mari?), the "as him" would be "he" in the essive case.

-David