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Linglib.Fragments.Dargwa.Case

Tanti Dargwa case #

This file defines the grammatical cases of Tanti Dargwa as Sumbatova describes them. A noun has a direct stem, its absolutive singular, and an oblique stem, the direct stem with -li, which is its ergative singular and the base of most other forms. The dative and the comitative add their suffix to the oblique stem, as do the locative forms of Locatives.lean, while the absolutive and the adverbial are built on the direct stem. Tanti has the absolutive, ergative, genitive, dative and comitative of most Dargwa varieties and an adverbial case of nominal and secondary predicates besides, which goes under the comparative label of the essive. The alignment is ergative without a split, A ergative and S and P absolutive.

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The oblique stem suffix -li. The oblique singular stem is the direct stem with it, and is the ergative singular.

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    inductive Dargwa.Case :

    The six grammatical cases.

    • abs : Case

      The absolutive, the direct stem.

    • erg : Case

      The ergative, the oblique stem.

    • gen : Case

      The genitive.

    • dat : Case

      The dative.

    • com : Case

      The comitative.

    • adv : Case

      The adverbial, of nominal and secondary predicates.

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      @[instance_reducible]
      instance Dargwa.instDecidableEqCase :
      DecidableEq Case
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      @[instance_reducible]
      instance Dargwa.instFintypeCase :
      Fintype Case
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      @[instance_reducible]
      instance Dargwa.instReprCase :
      Repr Case
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      def Dargwa.instReprCase.repr :
      Case → ℕ → Std.Format
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        The suffixes of a case after the direct singular stem. The absolutive is unmarked, the ergative is the oblique stem, the genitive takes -la, the dative -ž and the comitative -cːele on the oblique stem, and the adverbial -le.

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          A case is built on the oblique stem when its exponent begins with the stem suffix.

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            theorem Dargwa.Case.builtOnOblique_iff (c : Case) :
            c.BuiltOnOblique ↔ c = erg ∨ c = dat ∨ c = com

            The ergative, dative and comitative are the cases built on the oblique stem.

            The marking of the core arguments is ergative, A ergative and S and P absolutive, with no split by tense or aspect.

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              The marking is the ergative alignment.