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

Quoting "Dr. Peter E. Tarlow" <tourism@...>:

> Is this taken from Hebrew? I have placed the Hebrew equivalents in red.
No, it's not. As I said, it's "vaguely Semitic-inspired" - specifically it uses
the Semitic roots MLK and BYT, but the actual forms were made up on the spot.

  Andreas

> >Quoting Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...>:
> >
> >>  What would a supra- or transposition look like, anyhoo?
> >
> >
> >A supraposition would presumably look like David's tonal clitic. As for a
> >transposition, a hypothetical case might go like this (vaguely
> >Semitic-inspired):
> >
> >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"
>
> >
> >
> >If any natlang does the equivalent, I shall be duly impressed.
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