Re: Semantic field for local cases

On 5/27/06, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2006 15:34:16 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> > I found an old lecture handout showing a tabularized
> > semantic field for prepositions.
> >
> >                  INCLUSION   CONTACT     PROXIMITY
> >
> >      LOCATIVE    in----------on----------at
> >                  |           |           |
> >                  |           |           |
> >      SEPARATIVE  out-of------off---------from
> >                  |           |           |
> >                  |           |           |
> >      TRANSLATIVE through-----over--------along
> >                  |           |           |
> >                  |           |           |
> >      INGRESSIVE  towards-----against-----to
> >                              (for)
> >
> > Now my question is whether there are any (other) languages,
> > con or nat, that have such a 'neatly' organized case system
> > in part or whole, or even with more distinctions?
>
> Yes.  Daghestanian languages, such as Lak or Tabasaran, have such case
> systems, and very much so!
And Taruven =)

> This is also the truth behind the often-cited "48 cases of Tabasaran".
Taruven's system of "prepositions" was inspired by an article about
the locative "cases" in can't-remember-the-name, which summed up had
some 22 locative cases. I've got a copy somewhere...


t., who wants net back at home again

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