Re: Cases + Word Order?
| From: | Tommaso R. Donnarumma <trd@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 18, 2001, 16:13 |
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At 10.25 18/02/2001 +1100, you wrote:
>I'm in the middle of majorly reworking the slightly more complex of my two
>conlangs and I was just wondering...is it feasible or possible for word
>order to dictate subject and object etc and still have cases to mark other
>relationships (spatial, etc)?
Not only I don't see any problem with this, but I also know that there
exist natlangs that actually work like this (a list of examples is found in
Barry J. Blake's _Case_, but I don't have the book at hand right now).
You can let word order and/or bound pronouns distinguish the subject from
the object; you can even use bound pronouns or word order for the
possessor; and you can still have cases like the dative, locative and so
on to mark the other syntactic relatioships...
Happy conlanging,
Tommaso.
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