Re: a very interesting case system

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:48:27PM -0500, Robert B Wilson wrote:
> i just came up with a very interesting case system.  the cases are:
> causative, agentive, instrumental, benefactive, vocative, conformative,
> locative, inessive, comitative, privative, superessive, subessive,
> allative, ablative,  introessive, elative, perlative, and circumlative
>
> anyone see what's so interesting about it?  it doesn't have any case for
> the direct object of a transitive verb, so this language could have only
> intransitive verbs!  hehehe! isn't that pure evil? ;)))
Not any more evil than Ebisedian. :-)

> here's a sentence i came up with:
> filide tumana tasile kake bitane.
> fly.PAST INSTR.hand.SING ALL.window CAUS.he AGNT.stone
> "he threw the stone at the window."
[snip]

This seems awfully similar to Ebisedian, where case markings are
determined semantically (agent, instrument, direction, etc.) rather than
syntactically (subject/object).


T

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