Re: how many cases is too many?

Jim Henry wrote:
>gjâ-zym-byn has over 350 spacetime postpositions, plus an open-ended
>set of derived abstract postpositions.
>The gzb spacetime postpostions are composed of
>an orientation morpheme, a directional morpheme, and a proximity
>morpheme.  See:
>
>http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/grammar.htm#postp
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This is one of the most comprehensive and elegant parts of gzb in my
opinion.     It's like systematizing the Dagestanian languages'
spatial/local system  to its logical, idealized extreme, all with
mono-phonemic morphemes. A very nice system! If I were to design a more
"natlangish" conlang, I'd be tempted to steal it!

--John Quijada

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