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