Re: Circumfixes?

From: "J Matthew Pearson" <pearson@...>

| Steg Belsky wrote:
|
| > The 'destination' case (what's the real word?) is today mostly found in
| > the fossilized form _habayta_, "homewards":
| >
| > labayit (le-ha-bayit) = to the house
| > habayta (ha-bayit-a) = to home
| >
| > even though you'd expect them to mean the exact same thing.
|
| The real word is "dative" (or perhaps "allative").  Interestingly, Tokana

One term I forgot -- in Afro-Asiatic linguistics, I've seen the term "directive
case", distinguished from the static "locative case".

~DaW~


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