Re: inalienable possession
| From: | Matt Pearson <mpearson@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 20, 1998, 18:22 |
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Sally Caves wrote:
>Exactly. In Welsh prepositions are conjugated according to person:
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>gennyf i, ganndo ef,
>with me, with you, etc.
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>A remarkable feature that I don't think is peculiar only to the Celts.
It seems to be a common feature of verb-initial languages. Berber and
Malagasy both have 'inflected' prepositions.
Matt.
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