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Re: Polysynthetic nouns

From:william drewery <will65610@...>
Date:Friday, June 4, 2004, 7:49
> Frans Plank is the one David Petersen is referring > to. > He edited a book titled "Double Case: Agreement by > Suffixaufnahme", > published iun 1995 by Oxford University Press. (I > have never > read that volume, just found numerous references to > it when > googling for "suffixaufnahme".) Franz Bopp was an > early 19th > century linguist, one of the founding fathers of > historical > linguistics. Coincidentally, he was one of the > first to observe > suffixaufnahme (in Old Georgian), but I think he > wasn't the one > who coined the term. >
Yes, you're right. I found a page with a description of the book. Bopp took suffixaufnahme to be more or less a kind of agreement like in IE languages (which it seems to be).
> > > > > > 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. > > From the abstract, I have the impression that > Tariana has both, > suffixaufnahme as I have demonstrated in Old Albic, > *and* > what you describe. >
I would love to get a hold of a descriptive morphology for Tariana. I can only imagine what sort of monstrosities its nouns must be. I wonder if it allows verb incorporation of a multi-cased noun.
> Greetings, > > Jörg.
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