Re: Cases and adpositions
| From: | Christopher Wright <faceloran@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 2, 2002, 15:17 |
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Matthew Kert sekalge:
>My lang, Evíendadhail currently has a huge number of cases, something
>like 20-30. It also has no adpositions.
How do you manage this? Do you have such a small lexicon that you don't
yet need many pre/postpositions? Or are the rest of these indicated with
the nearest case and a modifier, sort of like an adjective?
>How unnatural is this? Are there any natlangs that do not make this
>distinction? I am considering dropping most of the cases and replacing
>them with prepositions. Is this more 'natural'? Comments would be
>appreciated. ;-)
That many cases make things a bit cumbersome, I think. If cumbersome is
not the object of this language, I'd remove most of them. In my opinion,
it's not natural to have thirty cases. Or at the least, it isn't normal.
(Bear in mind that I'm not as smart as I pretend to be.)
Laimes,
Wright.
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