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Re: adjectives

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, January 15, 2001, 10:49
> > And of course, many languages do not cleanly fall into either category, > but > span both. Latin, for example, has case (dependent-marking) but also has > subject agreement on the verb (head-marking). Chickasaw has case > (dependent-marking) and also verbal agreement for subject and object > (head-marking). >
What's funny with linguistic categories is that languages always seem to fall on the borders between those categories, never inside the categories themselves :) . What a strange science which, to order its material of study, created categories where it never fits :)) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr