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

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Monday, September 24, 2007, 16:44
Hi!

Andreas Johansson writes:
> >... > > Eu falarei - I will speak > > Eu falar-lhe-ei - I will speak to him. > > Cool. However, an alternate analysis suggests itself: unlike in other Romance > languages, the reflex of 'habere' HASN'T become an ending, but remains a > quasi-independent cliticized verb, the proof being the very fact that it does > allow other clitics between it and the infinitive. Are there good reasons to > reject this?
I'm quite very sure there are, but since I don't know exactly how Portuguese behaves here, I hope someone else can provide the reasons. **Henrik

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Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>