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

From:Tom Chappell <tomhchappell@...>
Date:Friday, September 2, 2005, 21:46
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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com