Re: head-marking
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 21:02 |
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Chris Bates wrote:
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> I believe welsh has some inflected prepositions. I'll have to get my
> welsh grammar book out and check.. I've forgotten most of what I read now.
Quite likely, as the related Irish also does. For example:
Ag "at"
Agam "at me" againn "at us"
Agat "at you" agaibh "at y'all"
Aige "at him" acu "at them"
Aici "at her"
Likewise, le "with" - liom/leat/leis/léi/linn/libh/leo
ar "on" - orm/ort/air/uirthi/orainn/oraibh/orthu
However, the forms ag/le/ar/etc are used with nouns, so, for example,
you son't say "leis Seán" for "with Sean", but rather "le Seán"
I don't know if there are any languages where the preposition would have
to agree with its object, but if there are, I'd suspect that they'd also
be ergative, and that the prepositions in question are derived from
verbs.
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