Re: Case Terminology Question

Quoth Jim Grossmann:

> Hope I'm not reviving a dead thread, but I'm creating a language with a
> great many cases, and I was hoping that some of you could help me replace
> some of my made-up terms for some of the cases with more standard terms.
This may miss the mark somewhat, but in case it's helpful, here's a[n
edited] big ol' list of cases that David Peterson posted a month or two ago,
employed by his language, Zhyler. Some of the descriptions are nonstandard,
but you certainly won't be at a loss for interesting case-names after
reading this. :)

Noun Cases:
1.) Nominative: hand
2.) Accusative: hand [obj.]
3.) Dative: to the hand
4.) Genitive: of the hand
5.) Instrumental: by means of the hand
6.) Aninstrumental: without use of a hand
7.) Benefactive: for the hand
8.) Malefactive: on the hand
9.) Vocative/Invocative: O hand!
10.) Commitative: with the hand
11.) Dedative/Anacommitative: without the hand
12.) Locative/Adessive: at/around the hand
13.) Allative: towards the hand
14.) Inessive: in the hand, "at" [temp.]
15.) Illative: into the hand
16.) Abessive: away from the hand
17.) Ablative: from the hand
18.) Exessive: out from the hand
19.) Exlative: out of the hand
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
24.) Enessive: on [top of] the hand
25.) Enlative: onto the hand
26.) Dessive: not on the hand
27.) Delative: off of the hand
28.) Subessive: under the hand
29.) Sublative: [go] under the hand)
30.) Supressive: above the hand
31.) Suplative: over the hand
32.) Proessive: in front of, "after" [temp.] the hand
33.) Prolative: [go] in front of the hand
34.) Postessive: behind, "before" [temp.] the hand
35.) Postlative: [go] behind the hand
36.) Translative: [go] through the hand
37.) Topical: about the hand
38.) Becausative: because of the hand
39.) Focus/Oblique: with respect to the hand
40.) Authorative: by the hand
41.) Contrative: against the hand
42.) Adverbial/Exhortative: hand-ly, or go hand!
43.) Possessive: "on" the hand, the hand has
44.) Interrogative: which/what hand
45.) Conjunctive: the hand, the palm and the gorilla
46.) Discriminatory (Inclusive): either the hand or the palm, or both
47.) Discriminatory (Exclusive): either the hand or the palm, but not both
48.) Monoexclusive: the hand and palm, but not the gorilla
49.) Exclusive: neither the hand nor the palm
50.) Durative: a hand for a short time
51.) Equative/Similative: like a hand
52.) Inequative: unlike a hand
53.) Comparative: more of a hand, than...
54.) Contrastive: than the hand
55.) Superlative: the handest of all
56.) Comprisative: made of/from a hand, [plu.] among
57.) Distributive: each hand separately

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Josh Brandt-Young <vionau@...>
"After the tempest I behold, once more, the weasel."
(Mispronunciation of Ancient Greek)

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