Re: Polysynthetic nouns
| From: | David Peterson <thatbluecat@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 2, 2004, 17:46 |
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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. For example:
d-is-a-s
/sister-genitive-epenthetic vowel-dative/
"to something belonging to one's sister"
-David
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