Re: THEORY: languages without arguments

At 09:01 AM 4/19/2000 -0700, 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.  I was
>refering to demonstratives and quantifiers.  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.
So does that mean that one of these adjective-like reduced relative clauses
_does_ have to be adjacent to the noun it modifies?  And can it either
precede or follow the noun?

Also, what if a demonstrative or quantifier goes between two nouns,
adjacent to both?  How do you know which noun it modifies?

- Tim


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