Re: Cases and adpositions
From: | Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...> |
Date: | Sunday, August 4, 2002, 1:48 |
Currently I do something similar to this. There are 20-odd main cases.
Besides this, one can agglutinate into existance various other cases
derived from adjectives. These can mean things like "more than," "as
much as" and "less then". In this way, non-locative relations can be
expresses.
-M
Nihil Sum wrote:
> David Peterson wrote:
>
> >Noun Cases:
> >1.) Nominative: --: 2kk2 (hand)
> ...
> >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?