Q: a term for "in accordance with N" / "almost Num"

Erdal at EM.UNI-FRANKFURT.DE Erdal at EM.UNI-FRANKFURT.DE
Sun Dec 23 10:51:44 UTC 2007


Turkish -ce, -ca is used in some such ways and is usually called 'equative'.
Marcel Erdal

Quoting Alexandre Arkhipov <arxipov at PHILOL.MSU.RU>:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Does any of you know of a (more or less established) term for a  
> case-like marker used in the contexts like
>     in accordance with N, in conformity with N, according to N
>     e.g. "law-MARKER" 'according to the law'
>
> The same marker is used to mark an approximate value:
>     e.g. "half-MARKER" 'about a half', "forty meter-MARKER"  
> 'approximately 40 meters'
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alexandre



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