Re: THEORY: Number and animacy

On Nov 8, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Paul Bennett wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:49:32 -0500, Henrik Theiling
> <theiling@...> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Paul Bennett writes:
>>> *If* I recall correctly (and that is not a guarantee), Elamite does
>>> exactly that thing,
>>>
>>> If there's any interest, I'll dig up my notes when I get home.
>>
>> Please dig! :-)
>
> Digging dug.
>
> From a book with a remarkably long name, published mostly in German
> in 1969, which AFAIK remains the most complete collection of work
> on Elamite (or at least, it was circa ten years ago).
[snip]

> The gender suffixes classify the morphemes with which they occur as
> nominals. Nominals followed by a gender suffix will be called
> nominally inflected [as opposed to nominals followed by a personal
> suffix, which are verbally inflected].
[snip]

> If there's an ANADEWism record book, IMO Elamite nouns need at
> least a passing mention. All this, and Suffixaufnahme too.
>
> Now my neck and fingers all hate me. It has been an age since I
> transcribed anything more significant than a part number.
> Additional information, however, is available on request.
I wonder if it'd be too much to ask for some examples of nominally
inflected nominals vs. verbally inflected ones and how they are
used?  This sounds quite interesting.

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