Re: inventory of cases
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 28, 1999, 13:35 |
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> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 15:14:44 +0200
> From: Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
> Thanks! In the meantime I've found another case, the _relative_,
> which according the authors is a combination of ergative and
> genitive, but which I can use for the infamous particle _tan_,
> which relates nominals in any old way.
Yes, that's the usual name given to the ergative-genitive case in
Inuktut languages --- I don't remember if I used it in the little
sketch I posted, because I usually forget it.
It makes a nice dichotomy: absolute -- relative.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)