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

On Sep 24, 2007, at 7:42 AM, Henrik Theiling wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Andreas Johansson writes:
>> Quoting Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>:
>>> Then there are also mesoclitics, which occur between morphemes
>>> within
>>> a word in Portuguese. I don't see why some so-called endoclitics
>>> (i.e. the ones between morphemes) shouldn't be called mesoclitics.
>>
>> Examples?
>
> I could imagine Eric means the object pronouns in future tense which
> are between the verbal root and the future ending.  Historically, this
> developed from INF + OBJ_PRONOUN + habere.  In other Romance langs,
> the object pronoun moved away when the 'habere' forms became verb
> endings.
>
> Since I don't speak Portuguese, I've used Google to provide some
> examples:
>
> Eu falarei        - I will speak
> Eu falar-lhe-ei   - I will speak to him.
>
> Or was it something else, you meant, Eric?
>
> **Henrik
It's a little late to respond, but yes -- that is what I meant.

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