Re: inventory of cases

At 13:48 28/06/99 +0200, you wrote:
>While I was working upon the adpositional particles of Denden,
>which are used as a kind of case markers, I was wondering which
>cases were being used, and I made the following small list, based
>on a few grammars and Blake's _Case_ - now I wonder which ones I've
>forgotten? Does anyone have a few others for me? Perhaps the ordering
>could use some work too.
>
>Cases
>
>  (A lot of cases have virtually the same description: this list is
>  culled from the literature, and so I know that all these descriptions
>  are actually in current (this decade) use.)
>
>Verbal arguments:
>
>nominative:   subject of the intransitive and agent of transitive sentence
>accusative:   direct object the transitive sentence
>absolutive:   subject of the intransitive and direct object of the transitive
>              sentence
>ergative:     agent of the transitive sentence. Often formally the
>              same as the instrumental
>dative:       indirect object
>instrumental: (agent,) instrument, means, cause or implement
>
>Nominal relationships
>
>genitive:     posession or belonging together. nominal marked with genitive
>              may occur adnominally as the modifier of another noun,
>              membership of an element in a set, part-whole relationship.
>possessive:   modify overt head, used independently without explicit
>              reference to the modified object, belonging together as an
>              attribute, relationship between two people, acquintance with,
>              'to have'
>comparative:  used in comparisons, 'than' ;-)
>
>Locative cases
>
>locative:     place, destination at a certain point, point in time:
>possessive locative: place, destination belonging to a certain area
>essive:       at (cf. locative)
>inessive:     in(side)
>adessive:     at
>superessive:  above
>subessive:    below
>ablative:     going from, 'from', 'via' (spatial & figurative), 'by
>              means of which', 'from the exterior of'
>allative:     going towards, 'up to', 'up as far as', 'until', towards
>              the exterior of
>illative:     going into
>similirative: similarity
>sociative:    coordinates arguments ('and'), comitative
>comitative:   belonging together, 'with', accompaniment, coordinates
>              nominal arguments: 'and' (usual animate referents)
>elative:      starting point of a movement, point in time after which
>              something takes place, startpoint of a comparison, 'out of',
>              'from the interior of'
>mediative:    means or route by which an event takes place
>ornative:     endowed with, equipped with, outfitted with
>intrative:    'between, inbetween'
>perlative:    path (same as mediative?), through, along
>superlative:  to the top of
>translative:  through
>partitive:    from, source
>
>Speech act
>
>vocative:     addressing someone
>
>Others:
>
>abessive:     absent
>privative:    lacking, not having
>concomitative:having
>proprietive:  having, possessing
>aversive:     turning from
>evitative:    avoiding
>causal:       causing
>purposive:    with the purpose to
>
        There is also final: goal.

>
>Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt
>
>
                                                        Christophe Grandsire
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