Re: CHAT: Nakiltipkaspimak
| From: | SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 21:26 |
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Daniel Andreasson wrote:
> What!? Holy macarony! You're right! I wonder why I did that. For some
> reason I seem to prefer that order subconsciously. Well. Perhaps it has
> to do with my built-in universal grammar which says that derivational
> elements should be closer to the root than inflectional ones. And a person
> agreement prefix seems more inflectional than an incorporated noun. :)
Well, truth be told. The agreement-incorporated noun order is the most
common cross linguisticly.
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> Daniel
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