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Re: Typologic survey, part II

From:Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>
Date:Thursday, February 1, 2001, 0:49
> ---- PART II Conlang Typlogic Survey 2001 ----
> House-keeping data
> Name of the participating conlang:
Ihro
> 2: Order of genitive (G), and noun (N) > Is the order GN, NG or both? > How is it shown? > - With a suffix on the G, the N, both? > - With a freestanding word separating the G and the N? > (like English 'of')
GN or N particle G Primarily the with the genitive/possessive case suffix on the G and the ergative case suffix on the N. Possession shown with a preposition/particle is possible but less common.
> 3: Order of adjective (A) and noun (N) > Does the language have a closed class of adjectives?
AN Stems inflected to be adjectives behave pretty much like English adjectives. Andy http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~adc7593/ adchaney@louisiana.edu