Re: Matein Einlich (Modern English)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 10, 2005, 21:48 |
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On 11 Feb 2005, at 1.39 am, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> Usually, such changes cooccur with a more general change in
> branchedness.
> Georgian, e.g., in the last 1500 years or so has undergone a more or
> less
> complete change from being almost entirely right-branching (noun-adj,
> noun-gen, noun-rel, etc.) to being almost totally left-branching. And
> similarly, what prepositions it had are almost entirely absent now
> except in archaizing quotations, having been supplanted by
> postpositions.
Prepositions are associated with noun-adj? I would've thought the other
order would make more sense: a preposition is a sort of a
noun-modifier, isn't it? But if so then English's noun-adj order could
precipitate Pascal's Einlich wordorder changes.
--
Tristan.
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