Re: Cases + Word Order?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 18, 2001, 3:45 |
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En réponse à D Tse <exponent@...>:
> Hello...
>
> 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)?
>
> Thanks
>
> Imperative
>
Well, difficult to say... How plausible is a language with cases not to
distinguish subject and object through case distinctions? Not very likely I
guess. But still prepositions can be argued to be a kind a casual distinctions,
and they usually don't distinguish subject and object...
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr