36.1526, Disc: "Locutive" Cases

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-1526. Wed May 14 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.1526, Disc: "Locutive" Cases

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Date: 14-May-2025
From: Alexis Manaster Ramer [manasterramer at gmail.com]
Subject: "Locutive" Cases


Languages have complex ways of marking (coding) the names of languages
that are used/spoken/known/written etc.  English is pretty simple but
in Polish f.ex. I speak POLISH (or any language whose name is an
adjective plus Latin, whose name in Polish is a noun) has one
construction, I speak SANSKRIT (or any language whose name is a noun
other than Latin) has another, I speak MANY LANGUAGES has a third, I
know Polish, Sanskrit, many languages, etc. has a fourth--and there
much more. Then different languages of course have different ways of
doing it.  I cannot find but maybe just missed any discussion of this
whole topic in typological or theoretical ling (e.g. The Oxford
Handbook of Case or Blake's Case).  Is there any?

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Typology




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