Re: Adverbs vs. prepositions

Pablo Flores wrote:
>
> In Ciravesu, some concepts (especially local concepts)
> are expressed only by adverbs, not by adpositions. For
> example, there's an adverb _or_ meaning _"below", but
> there's no postposition for "below, under".
>
> To use a postposition you must first inflect the noun for
> postpositional case. But to use adverbs this way you first
> establish the existence of the object, and then you use
> the adverb in the next proposition. For example:
>
>  _Pano ce or ziece_  "I'm under the sun"
>  lit. "Sun be, below I-be"
How would you translate "I saw the man below the sun"?

> Is this farfetched? Does any nat- or conlang use such
> a scheme? I'd like to get some comments.
I don't know of any examples, but it certainly seems reasonable to me.

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