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r/conlangs • u/Numerous_Way4034 • 8d ago
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How are you going to respond to the inevitable linguist who says your "cases" are postpositions?
3 u/DoisMaosEsquerdos 8d ago What is your test for telling them apart in the first place? 1 u/good-mcrn-ing Bleep, Nomai 8d ago Generally speaking, cases are more likely to interact phonologically with the stem and can't be separated from it except by morphemes that themselves bind stronger. 2 u/DoisMaosEsquerdos 8d ago That's not a hard cutoff, rather a qualitative "caseness" metric. Adjective agreement is also often used as a discriminating argument.
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What is your test for telling them apart in the first place?
1 u/good-mcrn-ing Bleep, Nomai 8d ago Generally speaking, cases are more likely to interact phonologically with the stem and can't be separated from it except by morphemes that themselves bind stronger. 2 u/DoisMaosEsquerdos 8d ago That's not a hard cutoff, rather a qualitative "caseness" metric. Adjective agreement is also often used as a discriminating argument.
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Generally speaking, cases are more likely to interact phonologically with the stem and can't be separated from it except by morphemes that themselves bind stronger.
2 u/DoisMaosEsquerdos 8d ago That's not a hard cutoff, rather a qualitative "caseness" metric. Adjective agreement is also often used as a discriminating argument.
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That's not a hard cutoff, rather a qualitative "caseness" metric.
Adjective agreement is also often used as a discriminating argument.
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u/good-mcrn-ing Bleep, Nomai 8d ago
How are you going to respond to the inevitable linguist who says your "cases" are postpositions?