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Re: Conlang book

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, February 8, 2001, 1:40
Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> >He walks before the wall (came into being). > >He walks while the wall (is in existence). > >He walks after the wall (was destroyed). > > Hm, not being quite so tired as when I wrote this, I'm now awake enough to > ask whether there's any natlang with any sort of "temporal cases"?
I don't know. AFMC: Lojban uses its tense words as prepositions in sentences like this, saying "He walks [past] the wall", etc. etc. It's a tense word if it precedes the verb, a preposition if it precedes a noun (phrase). -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter