Re: Circumfixes?

From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>

| is very similar to Fukhian.  Fukhian has special cases, however:
| locative, illative and seperative.  And instead of prefixes, it uses
| postpositions.  But it's exactly the same idea.  It then is
|
|    ROOT + CASE + POSTPOSITION
|
| There are many postpositions that can be used by this.  Without, the
| meaning is adessive, allative, ablative, with others it is `in, out of'
| `under, from under', etc.  Many of them.
|
| Your case choice seems to be borrowed from Ancient Greek, right?  I
| think it looks quite IEish because of this, since, IIRC ablative and
| genitive cases have usually merged here (especially visible in the
| mentioned Greek).  I don't know much about Semitic grammar, so my
| impression might be because of limited scope. :-)

My case system is borrowed a good bit from Indo-European (and Kartvelian, which
is VERY similar).  I'll probably have the same eight-case system or one with a
few others.  These pertain to suffixed cases, but remember I'll have
prepositional cases to extend the number.

I'm in the process of learning Semitic grammar.  All I know is that Arabic has
three cases:

            nom   acc   gen
definite    -u    -a    -i
indefinite  -un   -an   -in

Akkadian, I was told, has more cases.  Hebrew has only one case, or does it?

| Unfortunately, the grammar description is in German (I was very young
| when I did it, and didn't know it would make it into a world wide
| publishing media):
|    http://www.theiling.de/projects/fuch/text/fuch.ascii.html

German I kinda know.  Plus if there's a lot of technical jargon, I'll get the
jist of it.  Incidentally, I was studying Arabic grammar from a website in
French the other day.  But I actually took French in high school...

~DaW~


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