Re: OT: Possession in Ainu
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 5, 2006, 16:36 |
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In a message dated 11/4/2006 4:03:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rakko@CHARTER.NET writes:
>3. There is a set of possessive pronominal prefixes, of which at
>least some are identical to the verbal prefixes.
>- Are the verbal ones all identical to the possessive ones?.
According to _The Languages of Japan_ by Masayoshi Shibatani: "The possessive
personal affixes are the same as the transitive subject-marking affixes."
[p. 31]
-- Doug