Re: Semantic field for local cases

You might find the case system of Ankanian interesting.

It has a very similar system, but it is actually a subset
of a more general process.

Each word in Ankanian has a double declension based on the
addition of two vowels. There are 4 primary cases:

-a(r-) nominative
-o dative
-e genitive
-ai instrumental

There are then 6 secondary cases attachable to these
4 primary endings:

positional:
-a essive (location at)
-o abessive (location near)
-e inessive (location inside)

logical:
-u inclusive (with)
-i exclusive (instead of)
-r descriptive (like)

This creates 28 cases. Here is a list which shows the
possible combinations + sound changes incurred:

-a nominative
-ara nominative-essive (essive)----------------at
-are nominative-inessive (inessive)------------in
-aro nominative-abessive ----------------------at, near
-au nominative-inclusive (comitative)----------with
-ari nominative-exlusive-----------------------instead of
-ar (-ra) nominative-descriptive (adverbal)----like

-e (-eu) genitive------------------------------of
-ea genitive-essive (ablative)-----------------from
-ere genitive-inessive (elative)---------------out from
-eo genitive-abessive--------------------------away from
-eyu genitive-inclusive (causative)------------because of
-eri genitive-exclusive------------------------despite
-er genitive-descriptive-----------------------according to

-o dative--------------------------------------(to)
-oa dative-essive (allative)-------------------to
-oe dative-inessive (illative)-----------------into
-oro dative-abessive---------------------------toward
-oru dative-inclusive--------------------------for
-oi dative-exclusive---------------------------against
-or dative-descriptive (mediative)-------------about

-ai instrumental-------------------------------with, by
-aia instrumental-essive (translative)---------across
-aue instrumental-inessive---------------------through
-aio instrumental-abessive---------------------around, by
-aiu instrumental-inclusive--------------------because of
-aui instrumental-exclusive--------------------despite
-air instrumental-descriptive (referencial)----relating to

If you contemplate on these forms, you will see how they
each make sense in how the base case and the secondary
case combine to create the listed prepositions.

Harold

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