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

From: R A Brown <ray@...>

> Douglas Koller wrote:
> > From: R A Brown <ray@...>
> >>Trask [1993] defines 'circumposition' thus:
> >>illustrated
> >>in _Wo3 ba3 shui3 dao4 dao2 guon4 li3
> >>[Actually Trask gives the Mandarin with the Pinyin diacritics to show
> >>tone, and not the numbers which I've given above]
> > Wo3 ba3 shui3 dao4 dao4 guan4 li3,  idn't it [sic]?
> Yes, I did make a mistake with the second _dao_; Trask does give them
> both as da

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