Re: Case's Name

Max wrote:
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For Vbazi, to find a way to express meanings like "orange juice",
"milk coffee", or "apple pie", I've invented a preposition that is a
"preposition of composition" that works like "juice PREP orange" and
"coffee PREP milk".
 >>

You realize you have three different types of relations there:

(1) orange juice is juice comprised entirely of oranges
(2) milk coffee is coffee with milk added
(2) apple pie is something that prominently features (but does not
entirely
consist of) apples

I think it would be strange to have one preposition to do all three
of these.  If you flip it and make "juice orange" and "pie apple", then
you'd get something very much like French à, wouldn't you?

Anyway, for (1), I'd call that case the comprisative (I actually use
that case in Zhyler), where X is comprised entirely of Y (well, I
guess you'd have to switch the arguments).

For (2), you could just use an instrumental, or something.

For (3), you could use a comprisative, or an instrumental.

For all three...?  I'd be very curious to know.

-David
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