Re: Weekly Vocab 7 in Kash (part)

Hi!

Garrett Jones <conlang@...> writes:
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> > Why not?  E.g. Bahasa Indonesia has it: rok mini = mini rock, bahasa
First of all, my apologies that I wrote German here...

   rok mini = Minirock = miniskirt

> of the orders of a head first language. i haven't been able to find much
> information on the correlation between head first syntax and head first
> compounding, though.
I thought it was a weak principle that head-first phrase => head-first
compounding, but don't quote me, I'm no linguist (just a spare time
one).

> There are also the factors of learnability, too... how hard would it
> be for people to get used to head first compounding?
Don't you think that that simply depends on how your mothertongue
compounds?

> I think languages tend to favor suffixing in general even when they
> are head first, and even though suffixing is a head-last phenomenon.
I don't know.

Order probably depends on how the affix was created.  E.g. if an
instrumental adpositional clause was affixed as a whole, than I'd
expect it to follow phrasal composition order, but if the adposition
was dropped before affixation, I'd expect the order to be like the
word compounding order.

But that's only my intuition based upon my guts.

**Henrik