Re: Tech _hay_

Roger Mills scripsit:

> >Now I need two new names for the cases: the former being an expression of
> >greatness and awe; the latter pity and contempt.  The only terms I can
> think of
> >are "exaltative" and "humilitative" (!?).
>
>
> Before *way came along, I thought of "exclamatory"; but now, since there's a
> contrast, how about "appreciative" vs. "depreciative" ?  (These don't strike
> me as true "cases", but I don't know what they would be called.)
I suggest "ameliorative" and "pejorative".  Most languages have machinery for
at least the latter, but they consider it derivational rather than inflectional
morphology.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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