Re: Polysynthetic nouns
| From: | william drewery <will65610@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 3, 2004, 9:57 |
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--- william drewery <will65610@...> wrote:
> --- David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...> wrote:
> > The phenomenon you're referring to, I believe, is
> > called Suffixaufnamen, and
> > my morphology professor told
> > me that a dude name Franz Planck (that name can be
> > spelled four different
> > ways; I chose one. It might not be
> > right) wrote a whole book on it. Also, this is
> > most common in Australian
> > languages, so that's a place to start,
> > but it can also happen in Georgian.
It's called suffixaufnahme (at least in most of the
literature) and I ran into the name Franz Bopp, which
I'm not sure if this is who you referred to. It would
seem you have introduced me to a new idea here, which
I plan to use in a conlang before long. But I'm not
sure if suffixaufnahme is the same as what goes on in
Tamara. In Tamara, from what I gather, a noun can
carry two morphemes inflecting it for case related to
two different verbs. I'm guessing it works something
like this:
John saw Paul buy a car.
John-nom. saw Paul-acc.-nom. buy a car
(I'm new to this, so forgive me if my gloss sucks)
where "Paul" is marked to show he is the subject of
the second clause while he's the object of the first
clause. Sort of like switch-reference, but I'm
guessing it could go further--one noun may be marked
as an ind.obj. in one clause, dir.obj. in another and
subj. in another, with the noun said only once.
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> > "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting
> > the dawn."
> >
> > -Jim Morrison
> >
> >
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