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Re: Conlang Development With Multple Noun Cases

From:Douglas Koller <laokou@...>
Date:Monday, December 28, 1998, 8:52
Arek Bellagio wrote:

> those of you who have developed conlangs > with multiple cases, how do you further development of your language? How do > you create adjectives? Usually, nouns with cases do not require a specific > word order, right? (In my belief they wouldn't, since the case ending would > determine what role it plays in the sentence; otherwise it would just be > superfluous) Well, do you also decline adjectives? How > have you others done this in the past? I'm eager to see how you've tackled this.
Ge'arthnuns has seven cases. Word order is normally SOV and not especially flexible outside of poetry. Adjectives follow the noun (rare for SOV, no?) and agree with it in declension (1st, 2nd, 3rd,...7th), number (sing./dual/pl.), polarity (pos./neg.), and case (nom./acc./dat./instr./postpositional/gen./loc.).
> If you also would prefer to simply give me URLs of your languages (so you > don't have to explain in detail), I'd also welcome those.
Sooooon, soooooooooon. Kou