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Re: adjectives

From:Marcus Smith <smithma@...>
Date:Sunday, January 14, 2001, 17:39
Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

><enlightenment> Where does Japanese fit in this, JOOC?
Japanese is almost exclusively dependent-marking. The only head-marking property that I can think of off the top of my head is the honorific prefix when it occurs on a verb. Marcus Smith "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." -- Thomas Huxley