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

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 26, 2005, 18:40
Markus Miekk-oja skrev:
> 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.
I discovered that Mærik (my conlang) can indeed case stack allatives and datives on locatives: "TO the men IN the village" as opposed to "TO the men OF the village". -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)