In Nominative^x, Curriculum vitae^x

A CV produced by one person is his curriculum vitae. If over the person's lifetime he produces multiple CVs, then collectively they are his curricula vitae. By contrast a bundle of CVs of different people would collectively be their curricula vitarum. Vitae is the genitive singular, and...

Hi, Not quite... Although it is true that vitae can be the nominative plural of vita (i.e. life used as a subject), it can also be its genitive singular form (i.e. life's , or of life ). If interested, please have a look at this page from Wikipedia about the first declension in Latin. The...

Imagine a language in which: “The man hit the table with a stick” is “Copoloteko tipadela tisadure asutariki bu.” In this sentence co = a classifier indicating that we are talking about something animate polo = man te = a nominative case marker ko = the speaker wishes to...