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

Is this taken from Hebrew?  I have placed the Hebrew equivalents in red.


>Quoting Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...>:
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>>  What would a supra- or transposition look like, anyhoo?
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>A supraposition would presumably look like David's tonal clitic. As for a
>transposition, a hypothetical case might go like this (vaguely
>Semitic-inspired):
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>malak         "king"             melek
>melke         "to the king"      la'melek
>malak bayat   "king of the house"  melek ha'bayit
>malak beyte   "to the king of the house" l'melek ha'bayit

I am using the K here as a gutteral, such as in the Scotish word "loch"

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>If any natlang does the equivalent, I shall be duly impressed.

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