Re: THEORY: Case stacking; was: Re: THEORY: genitive vs. construct case/izafe

Hi!

Markus Miekk-oja <m13kk0@...> writes:
> I'd suspect partitives, if used in constructions like 'a wall of
> stone' (wall-WHATEVER stone-PART-WHATEVER), and ablatives (the man-nom
> Greenwich-from-nom) and generally any cases that are allowed to be
> used as attributes of nouns are next in line to receive it, after
> genitives. Languages like Kayardild case stack in rather insane ways,
> and can mark every word in a subclause with the same case ("I heard
> that he is out of town" -> I heard that-ACC he-ACC is-ACC out-ACC
> of-ACC town-ACC + the other internal case endings there'd be there)...
Really!  And that's a natlang?

I once planned this for a conlang of mine that never made it (S4 or
S6, I think) in order to allow *really* free word order, i.e., any
order for words in any sentence with any nesting depths would be ok,
but I abandoned the thought because it seemed too wild to me...

**Henrik

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