Re: Combined Cases? and NP?

En réponse à Carsten Becker :


>Unfortunately, I can't. But I think I've read something like Latin has
>sometimes accusative+genitive or so ...
Well, no. In Latin you just cannot add case endings onto each others. A 
single noun has a single case. However, other languages can do that. 
Basque, for instance, has no problem combining cases together (one being 
usually one of the genitives). The common example I give is "urre": "gold" 
-> "urrez": "with gold" (instrumental case) -> "urrezko erraztuna": "the 
golden ring" ("-ko": locative genitive). You can also nominalise declined 
forms by adding the article "-a" after a case ending (normally it comes 
*before* the case ending).  For instance, if "harotzaren etxea" is "the 
smith's house" ("-en": possessive genitive), "harotzarena" is a 
nominalisation meaning "the smith's one". Very practical and concise :)) . 
Basque can do that because it is very agglutinative. Latin is a rather 
synthetic tongue and synthetic languages are usually quite strict in their 
declensions.

>  I really don't know - that's why
>I'm asking. If something like that really doesn't exist I'm sorry to have
>posted a message that increases the count of the daily posting limit.
Don't worry. Although it doesn't exist in Latin, other languages do show 
this feature (I found it so nice I immediately incorporated it in Moten. 
But since Moten uses infixes, suffixes and prefixes, it can make for 
strange things :)) ). So it was a perfectly legitimate question :) .


>Damn, should have been clear *slaps forehead*. Thanks.
You're welcome :) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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