From: "Ian Spackman" <ianspackman@...>
> 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.
Spanish has a few; the first- and second-person singular forms of <con> "with"
are <conmigo> and <contigo> respectively. [Of course there is not a complete
paradigm...yet.]
*Muke!
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