Re: head-marking

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.

> My copy of _Describing Morphosyntax_ arrived today, so I've started
> reading
> it.  Something I'd like to know more about than appears (at least so far)
> in the book:
>
> I was aware of the distinction between head- and dependent-marking in
> possessive constructions, and was rather surprised to learn that
> head-marking is the more common.  But more interesting is the comment
> that
> the patterns tend to apply across different sort of phrases in the
> language
> (nominal, adpositional, verbal).
>
> How does this work?  Does anyone have any examples?  I cannot recall
> having
> met, for instance, an inflected adposition, myself.
>
> It's a shame that the only example in the book is one of possession (Zhon
> kitab-é 'John's book' (Farsi)).
>
> Ian
>

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