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

From:Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
Date:Saturday, September 22, 2007, 23:56
On 9/22/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> > You'll be disappointed (unless I'm really getting senile & missed > something). The only examples I found Dryer gave of 'inpositions' were > from Anindilyakwa (Northern Territory, Australia), and Tümpisa Shoshone > in California.
Did someone say Shoshone? I suppose now I'll have to read this paper. I am not aware of anything like an "inposition" in any Numic language. Dirk