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Re: Thalassan Possessive Suffixes

From:David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 18:50
Rob wrote:
<<
Since the possessive suffixes are formally enclitic in nature, they
follow
both number and case.
 >>

Hee, hee...  Don't tell Chomsky!  He'll send a distributed morphologist
to explain how your possessive suffix clitics underlying precede case
and number, and how case and number have to move leftward to check
a feature (say, a # node that needs to be filled), stranding the
possessive
suffix in an "unnatural" location!

:::End Sarcasm:::

-David
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