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[Tlhingan-hol] Noun cases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Mon Nov 28 16:57:33 2011
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:57:09 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhIngan Hol <tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
I was listing the noun cases of Klingon, and I can't find all the
terminology I want.
So far I have the following list:
locative/lative (-Daq)
ablative (-vo')
causal (-mo')
dative (-vaD)
genitive (-)
I postulate the existence of a "null case" for genitive because when a
noun acts in a genitive fashion (the first noun of a noun-noun
construction), it cannot decline into another case.
I'm stuck on -'e', though. Looking through Wikipedia's list of
grammatical cases
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grammatical_cases> I cannot find
anything that obviously refers to the function seen by the "subject" of
a to-be construction, or by the {SuvwI''e'} in {qIbDaq SuvwI''e' SoH Dun
law' Hoch Dun puS} in Star Trek V. Does anybody know whether linguists
have a name for this topic case?
Is there a case that combines the functions of locative (in/on/at) and
lative (to, into)?
Have I missed any other cases that aren't type 5 noun suffixes?
--
SuStel
http://www.trimboli.name/
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