THEORY: Omnipredicativity (was: Re: Marking nouns with person?)

THEORY: Omnipredicativity (was: Re: Marking nouns with person?)
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Wier <trwier@u...> wrote:
> [snip]
> I've argued that these subject markers in Nahuatl -- at least in
> modern spoken Nahuatl -- are actually clitics, and therefore it's
> inappropriate to say that they are marking person on the noun.
> Launey, to be sure, thinks otherwise, but I think most linguists
> would think that his omnipredicativity hypothesis is wrong.
Tom,
what's "omnipredicativity"?

(Sounds like "preaching everything".  I bet that's not it.)

Thanks,

Tom H.C. in MI


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