Re: Question about Romlangs/CeltiConlangs

--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
wrote:
> > The basic forms of nouns come from the genetive
> > case; construct forms
> > come from the nominative case, with Semitic
> > interference.
>
> That's interesting. I'm not aware of the Latin
> genitive surviving in any other
> Romance language.
It "survived" in Kerno for a while, though hidden as
one of the accusative functions. In the literary
language, you could always tell a genitive because
what you'd see is an unmutated accusative form:

eo le ngatte e la meva ngommatron eo withu.
I see the cat and my mother-in-law.

eo le ngatte la meva commatron eo withu.
I see my mother-in-law's cat.

Both constructions are still valid in spoken Kerno,
but the mutation system has long been moribund. The
distinction would now rest solely on the existence of
"e" (and) in the first:

gouithem me le cat (e) la meva comatron.

> Jan
Padraic.


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Percumion farfer, ec nasteros em purfelos, polim ed siramet.
     -Pomperios Perfurios.

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