Re: Cases + Word Order?

+ Word Order?
>
> Hello...
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> 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)?
I don't see any problem with it.  This is essentially what Yivríndil
does, as subject and object are marked by word order, but there are
three other cases marked by inflections: Dative, Ablative, and Genitive.
One consequence of this, though, is that certain classes of verbs can
take their objects in the Dative, and in some dialects of Yivríndil
these verbs mandatorily take Dative objects.  In a daughter language to
Yivríndil, which I might someday get around to making, the dative case
may eventually have completely taken over the function of the
accusative.  You might think of incorporating a similar thing into your
conlang.

>
> Thanks
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> Imperative
>

Jesse Bangs