Re: Case Terminology Question

In a message dated 2/1/2003 3:50:28 PM Pacific Standard Time,
dawier@HOTMAIL.COM writes:


> From: "Josh Brandt-Young" <vionau@...>
>
> | Noun Cases:
>
> [...]
>
> | 20.) Rexessive: right of the hand
> | 21.) Rexlative: by [right side] the hand
> | 22.) Linksessive: left of the hand
> | 23.) Linkslative: by [left side] the hand
>
> I have the terms "dextressive", "dextralative", "sinistressive" and
> "sinisterlative" in mind.
 Those would work! I've never seen a case name from German before (although
I've heard that some of the Finnish case names are of Finnish origin).

>
> | 27.) Delative: off of the hand
>
> I saw the term "delative" once in a description of cases, it was defined as
> "down (from) the hand".
>
> | 31.) Suplative: over the hand
>
> "Superlative"? Or is that too confusing with the superlative form, as in
> "Xest"
> and "most X".
 How about "surlative"?

>
> | 38.) Becausative: because of the hand
>
> LOL! I was thinking just "causative", but you have to specify "case" or you
> got
> a verb form.
 Let's see . . . isn't the Latin word for "because of" "propter"? I think I
remember the name of the logical fallacy as "post ergo propter", and that's
supposed to mean "after therefore because of". This is a popular fallacy that
people get away with, and use in respected fora of discourse, more often than
most fallacies because people tend to be so easily impressed by statistics
and the human mind has always had a poor understanding of correlation. We see
it every time someone says, "In the fifties, crime was low and nothing worse
than scraping the knee could happen to a child walking downa sidewalk in the
neighborhood, but the after the sixties we started seeing people being
murdered and raped left and right! Everyone knows that THIS is what taking
away Traditional Values has done for our country!" Therefore I propose that
this case of the noun be called "propterative". And possibly a
"contrapropterative" to correspond to "despite the hand".