Nik Taylor skrev:
> Why use case at all? If the agent is left of the patient, then use =
the
> plain form of the noun, and if the agent is right of the patient use =
the
> inverse, that is:
>=20
> il yulo im (i)
> 1sg see:PRES 2sg
> 'I look at you'
>=20
> il yulo-vo im (ii)
> 1sg see:PRES-INV 2sg
> 'You look at me'
>=20
> Use verbal inflections. You could mark volitional/non-volitional on =
the
> verb. The inverse thing doesn't seem to make much sense when most
> inflections are on the noun, it seems to me to belong to a =
head-marking
> (verbal inflection) lang.
I totally agree. Something like Cree or Navajo.
=20
> Very interesting. I've thought about it before, but I don't want to
> make a new lang, and there's no way it could be jammed into W.
The problem is that I've thought really hard about the case
marking in Rinya and don't want to abandon that. But OTOH I
might make a whole new language that looks something like
the above (to the conworld I write about in my reply to Dirk
Elzinga).
/ Daniel Andreasson