Re: Conlang book

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).

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter