Noun Cases for Mountain/Sea and Island
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noviceconlangersReally hope I'm not hogging the place. (BTW Thanks to anke I found the setting and made it so members can tag stuff now).
So Noun Cases.
Mountain/Sea
Mountain/Sea is a nominative/accusative language
The Mountain and Sea People tend to have a very structured view of their world and this shows up in their language in the large numbers of genders and cases. I did consider going the full Finland with the cases (it would eliminate prepositions) but it seemed like it might be more trouble than it was worth.
Note: Not all genders decline in all cases. When there is dash in the chart that gender does not decline in that case.
Note 2: I haven't come up with all the suffixs yet. Blank with no dashes will have to be filled. Also I probably need to have more than one suffix in some genders (lest every character name end up ending in lha).
Note 3: what suffixes I have so far are the singular ones.
Island
Island is an ergative–absolutive language, but apart from the the first two the cases are not set. I may drop the genitive and find some other way to show the possessive and merge the dative into the absolutive (Since really the dative will always be the object of a transitive verb since it the noun to which something is given).
What do people think?
anke I found the setting and made it so members can tag stuff now).So Noun Cases.
Mountain/Sea
Mountain/Sea is a nominative/accusative language
The Mountain and Sea People tend to have a very structured view of their world and this shows up in their language in the large numbers of genders and cases. I did consider going the full Finland with the cases (it would eliminate prepositions) but it seemed like it might be more trouble than it was worth.
Note: Not all genders decline in all cases. When there is dash in the chart that gender does not decline in that case.
Note 2: I haven't come up with all the suffixs yet. Blank with no dashes will have to be filled. Also I probably need to have more than one suffix in some genders (lest every character name end up ending in lha).
Note 3: what suffixes I have so far are the singular ones.
| Divine | Persons | Animals | Plants | Natural Features/Forces | Natural Objects | Artificial Features/Forces | Artificial Objects | Abstract | |
| Nominative | -rid | -lha | -nya | -bin | |||||
| Accusative | -rif | ||||||||
| Dative | |||||||||
| Ablative | |||||||||
| Genitive | |||||||||
| Vocative | -rin | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Locative |
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| — | |||
| Instrumental | — |
Island
Island is an ergative–absolutive language, but apart from the the first two the cases are not set. I may drop the genitive and find some other way to show the possessive and merge the dative into the absolutive (Since really the dative will always be the object of a transitive verb since it the noun to which something is given).
| Animate (edible) | Animate (inedible) | Inanimate | |
| Absolutive | |||
| Ergative | |||
| Dative | |||
| Genitive |
What do people think?
Thoughts...
Date: 2011-11-26 12:48 pm (UTC)b) I just had a look at Latin declension tables, and was reminded of the confusion caused by some endings being used for more than one case and declension...
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