Re: YAC: a couple of questions

Patrick aniyë

the locative or in the allative case only the last membre of the phrase
>inflects, this because these cases come from pospositional construction
>taking the absolutive case:
Pardon my naivete but what is the allative case's purpose? Or the
absolutive? Is there a good web site covering different cases and
their purposes? I know Latin ones, Locative, Ablative, Nominative
etc... but these are unknown to me.

The allative is a local case indicating place towards.(At least this is the
usage in Uralic languages and my lang, Silindion, which is based on Finnish).
Therefore:

  asuni eino tosseanna "he walked toward the town"  where tosse = town and
-nna is allative.

  Elliott