Re: Cases and adpositions
| From: | Nihil Sum <nihilsum@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 3, 2002, 23:22 |
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(Two replies in one: whatta bargain!)
David Peterson wrote:
>Noun Cases:
>1.) Nominative: --: 2kk2 (hand)
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>55.) Distributive*: -zFr, 2kk2jzer (each hand separately)
Yeah, I think you're exploring that grey area between the case and the
adposition / suffix. I don't think you should have proper "names" for all of
them the way you do though. What if you use a suffix, or agglutinate a local
noun, meaning "left of..." have you created number 56, the Sinisteressive?
It looks like this list could grow even more, since everything that can be
expressed by a preposition can also be a suffix. Even time words like
"before", "after", "during" etc.
And then Philip Newton wrote:
>I saw one web site by a Finn which proposed the "adjective test": if
>the adjective takes the same case ending as the noun it modifies, it's
>a real case; otherwise, it's probably something like an adverb or
>adposition or whatever.
IF adjectives agree, which in some languages they don't. Do adjectives agree
with nouns in Turkish?
NS
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