Re: head-marking
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 13, 2003, 2:23 |
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JS Bangs wrote:
> What about Italian and French? Yes, I know that you'll tell me that those
> are just the articles phonetically mashed in with the preposition, but by
> modern times this relationship is pretty opaque and can arguably be called
> pure agreement.
Hmm, or you could consider them inflections of the articles, but that
could be counted as agreement. Altho, those don't have any "first" or
"second" person inflections. But, add in fusion with pronouns and lose
the indefinite articles and free forms (so that de and d'un were lost)
and it could be considered a completely inflected preposition.
At any rate, it is an idea for a source of fully inflected prepositions.
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