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

Quoting Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...>:


> (As near as I can tell nobody thinks there are suprapositions or
> transpositions.)
A supraposition, I suppose, is a suprasegmental feature that serves the function
of  an adposition, but what is a transposition?


I was going to say I could easily imagine a supraposition, supposing my
supposition as to meaning be correct, coming into existence from a postposition
first becoming asyllabic and then turning into a toneme - imagine a development
like _aba su_ > _abas_ > _abà_ where _aba_ is some noun and the grave is low
tone - but then it struck me if we discover such a beast in the wild, we would
likely call it a case-form, not an adpositional phrase, at least by the third
stage.

I guess I should go read the paper you linked to and find out exactly why Dyer
thinks the Tagalog inpositions are just that and not case inflections. Perhaps
the same distinction, if there be one, is applicable to suprasegmentals ...


 Andreas