Re: what is "Suffixaufnahme" ?

Hey!

On Monday 04 October 2004 18:47, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

 > Suffixaufnahme is a rather rare phenomenon.  It seems
 > that it only occur in languages that
 >
 > (1) have a case system,
 > (2) have adjectives agreeing with nouns in case and
 > number, (3) have genitives following the noun,
 >
 > but I am not sure.  At any rate, there are many languages
 > fulfilling these criteria that don't have Suffixaufnahme.

I'm just thinking about how I'd express "in the man's house"
in Ayeri (Jörg's example, just modified). Ayeri *has* got a
case system, adjectives *do* agree with nouns in case and
number and genitives *do* follow nouns. Let's see ...

nanga-ea  ayon-ena
house-LOC man-GEN

*I* am in the man's big house.
Ang     yom-ay-in  nanga-ea  ei-carya ayon-ena.
TRG:AGT be-1sg-TRG house-LOC OBL-big  man-GEN
     ^          |         ^   |
     `----------'         `---'

So it's rather like in English, "the man's house":
the=man.GEN house.NOM (!?). No suffixaufnahme.

Carsten
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