Re: Cases and adpositions
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 2, 2002, 14:59 |
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 07:52:05AM -0400, Matthew Kehrt wrote:
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> My lang, Evíendadhail currently has a huge number of cases, something
> like 20-30. It also has no adpositions. The way the language currently
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Cool.
> 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. ;-)
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Don't drop it. I think having that many cases makes a language fun. Also,
there is no reason those cases couldn't have come from postpositions
(there is no reason it has to be prepositions). In fact, they could very
well *be* postpositions that just happened to have assimilated as part of
the word.
T
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