Re: THEORY: Xpositions in Ypositional languages {X,Y}={pre,post}

Hi!

Andreas Johansson writes:
> Quoting Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>:
>
> > A little more on topic, another putative phenomenon is endoclitics --
> > clitics which occur inside of words (either between morphemes or
> > within them). They are thought by some (e.g. Judith Klavans and
> > Arnold Zwicky) not to exist, but others (e.g.  Alice Harris and
> > Ethelbert Karl) disagree. They seem to occur in at least Udi, Pashto,
> > and Degema.
> >
> > Then there are also mesoclitics, which occur between morphemes within
> > a word in Portuguese. I don't see why some so-called endoclitics
> > (i.e. the ones between morphemes) shouldn't be called mesoclitics.
>
> Examples?
I could imagine Eric means the object pronouns in future tense which
are between the verbal root and the future ending.  Historically, this
developed from INF + OBJ_PRONOUN + habere.  In other Romance langs,
the object pronoun moved away when the 'habere' forms became verb
endings.

Since I don't speak Portuguese, I've used Google to provide some
examples:

Eu falarei        - I will speak
Eu falar-lhe-ei   - I will speak to him.

Or was it something else, you meant, Eric?

**Henrik

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