Re: Senyecan nouns
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 24, 2004, 23:20 |
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In a message dated 10/24/2004 5:51:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
caeruleancentaur@YAHOO.COM writes:
>The nominative ending is -n, the
>genitive -s, the accusative -m.
Genitive -s and accusative -m have an Indo-European look to them. (I'm
thinking of what I know of Latin, for example.) Is there an intentional connection?
>Adjectives follow the same patterns and agree with their nouns in
>number, case, and declension, whether attributive or predicative
Usually adjectives are said to agree in "gender" rather than "declension."
Can you give some examples of nouns with adjectives agreeing with them?
Doug