[Multilingual Monday] There and Back
One of the things I find most fascinating about a language like Finnish is the near lack of prepositions as we know them, as nouns are conjugated into locative "cases". Take talo, "house." "In a house" becomes talossa; taloksi is "to a house", and several cases cover such concepts that would be covered in English as "from", "with", "without", etc. There are a number of irregularities that cause the nominative cases and the locative cases to look somewhat different from one another.
I find it more interesting that languages that don't have separate noun "locative" cases, per se, still have nouns that indicate direction -- see English and "home" vs. "homeward"; Hebrew and ביתה, beyta, "towards home", or שמאלה, smola, "towards the left", with the ה that one can attach to various nouns to indicate "toward" said noun.
I'd love to hear what you guys have to say about concepts of location and motion when it comes to nouns or even verbs. I know this isn't much but bitches, it's my anniversary and we still have cake!! ^o^
I find it more interesting that languages that don't have separate noun "locative" cases, per se, still have nouns that indicate direction -- see English and "home" vs. "homeward"; Hebrew and ביתה, beyta, "towards home", or שמאלה, smola, "towards the left", with the ה that one can attach to various nouns to indicate "toward" said noun.
I'd love to hear what you guys have to say about concepts of location and motion when it comes to nouns or even verbs. I know this isn't much but bitches, it's my anniversary and we still have cake!! ^o^