Re: The Language Code (take 4)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 14:53 |
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Embarrassingly elementary questions--
Dirk Elzinga wrote:
> M morphology
> h head-marking (+/-)
> d dependent-marking (+/-)
I'm sure we've gone into this before, but please explain. How does it differ
from---
> S syntax
> f head-first/head-final (+/-)
This refers to order of constituents in N/Adj, Possessor/Possessed,
Modifier/head in compounds, right? Does f+ then mean head-first, f-
head-last? In that case----
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> English: Tn Pt*p++24,9(c)v(c) Wntar Mi++ f+
^^^
English is head-first?? No....
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