Re: looking for a language term

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Tim May <butsuri@M...> wrote:

>Zero anaphora.  (At least, I think that's what you mean.)
>See here:
>http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsZeroAn
aphora.htm

In message #129495 I asked for some help in naming the two oblique
cases in Senyecan.  My thanks to those who made some suggestions.
Unfortunately, they wouldn't work.  I went to the site given above
and got some help.

One case expresses motion (any kind of motion, specificity determined
by the postposition), the other lack of motion [notice my zero
anaphora? :-)].  With all those "-lative" cases in Finno-ugric, each
one specifying a different kind of motion, I thought "lative" would
be the right name.  Then I learned that "lative" has its own
specificity.  The same with "essive."

For a while I was hung up on the -ive ending for naming cases until I
remembered -al.  Thus I am naming the two oblique cases "motional"
and "stational."  Neither word occurs in the above site nor are they
in the AHD.  For a while I toyed with "positional" but that doesn't
quite capture the function of the case.  It doesn't denote merely
poistion, but the lack of motion.  I thought "stational" sounded
better than "staionarial"!

Again my thanks to all who helped me.

Charlie
http://wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur