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Bee is re-posting his case system proposal at Rain's request. From: Jim Henry <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [CONLANG] Common Honey: A collaborative language To: Constructed Languages List <[log in to unmask]> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Shanoxilt Cizypij <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>Jim Henry >>Bee suggests that we consider having different instrumental applicatives/cases for different types of tool. > How would we systematize it to make it memorable? Some possibilities: - one instrumental for physical tools, another for software, methods, techniques - one instrumental for tools that fit in one hand, another for larger tools like vehicles - one instrumental for long narrow tools (knives, screwdrivers, etc.), another for others >>We should also consider our noun morphology more generally. Bee suggests this tentative case system: Agent, force, patient and experiencer marked by word order (agent and force after the verb, patient and experiencer before the verb) Morphological cases: - focus/source - recipient/beneficiary - instrmental I - instrumental II (see above for possible distinctions) - comitative - possibly other cases that don't come to mind -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/ http://www.jimhenrymedicaltrust.org -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/ http://www.jimhenrymedicaltrust.org