Marcus Smith wrote:
> There are no "adjectives" in Mohawk (like in many polysynthetic languages.)
> Adjectives are all verbs in some kind of a reduced relative clause.
Functionally, they serve as adjectives.
> As long as they are adjacent to
> the noun, the order does not matter. It is only when they separate that they
> must precede the noun.
Interesting.
> I think it is a hold-over from Old Japanese. OJ apparently didn't have case
> marking for subjects and objects -- they were recently developed from a
> genitive (-ga)
Interesting. Then where did _no_ come from, and when did it begin to
replace -ga?
> There is also the noun koto "fact" which often appears at the end of a
> sentence, but that has a purely grammatical function now, as far as I can
> tell.
Interesting. What is that function?
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