Re: R: Comments required ... please : )

At 14:03 29/06/00 +0200, you wrote:
>
>Yes, I know about Euskara. I thought to use this possibility about two
>years ago, with one of my 10K conlang sketches, even before I ever
>heard of the Basque tongue. Indeed I do not like very much all those
>words with the same ending - Latin: illustribus hominibus, and so on...-.
>Probably I'll work this way: Erg. Abs. Gen. and Dat. with agreement --- Loc.
>and All, lately derived from locative postpositions with the Abs. case,
>without agreement (i.e. only the last word of a noun phrase takes the case
>ending).
>
>HWAT DOST THOU THINK ABOUT YONDER THOUGHT?
>
I think that's a really nice idea! The diachronic explanation is very good,
and AFAIK, there are precedents in natlangs, even in I-E langs.

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