Re: THEORY: two questions

Cristophe worte:

> At 18:45 27/03/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >It was my impression that the terms also applied to grammatical
> >categories besides just verbs -- that is, prepositional phrases,
> >possessive constructions, and noun phrases can be classified as
> >head-marking or dependent-marking as well.  Welsh's inflecting
> >prepositions would be a good example of head-marking in a prepositional
> >phrase:
> >
> >        arna  i;  arno   fo;   arni   hi
> >        on-1s me  on-3sm him;  on-3sf her
> >
>
> That doesn't surprise me. Prepositions in Welsh are of verbal origin
aren't
> they?
No, they are from the same source as the rest of the IE propsitions, it's
just that in Welsh (and Cornish and Breton) they have merged with the
following prepositions. My Welsh isn't good enough to give an example, but
in Cornish: dhe + my "to me" is dhym, from OC *de + *mi.

Dan