Re: Typologic survey, part II

At 1/30/01 10:08 PM +0100, you wrote:


>Name of the participating conlang:
Telek

>2: Order of genitive (G), and noun (N)
>Is the order GN, NG or both?
GN

>How is it shown?
Alienable nouns: prefix and suffix on N.
Inalienable nouns: prefix on N.
Prefixes are identical for both types of noun.

>3: Order of adjective (A) and noun (N)
>If there is not a separate open adjective-class, what type of words do
>the work of adjectives, verbs or nouns?
Verbs.

>Regardless of being a separate class or not:
>How are they similar, how do they differ from verbs and nouns?
Similarities: They take person, aspect, applicatives, and mood like the verb.
Differences: When used attributively, they form reduced relative clauses
rather than full RC's like verbs do.

>Can they take a copula (that is: need/don't need equivalent of "to be")?
They never take the copula.



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