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Re: head-marking

From:Muke Tever <muke@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 13, 2003, 15:13
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! -- http://frath.net/

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