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Re: head-initial structure

From:Garrett Jones <alkaline@...>
Date:Thursday, May 16, 2002, 15:43
> Mike S. scripsit: > > > Actually I can't think of a single language that > > regularly forms head-initial compounds. > > Vietnamese is SVO but otherwise quite rigidly head-initial. Native, > as opposed to Sino-Viet, compounds are always head-initial, in particular.
what about affixation in vietnamese? -- Garrett Jones http://www.alkaline.org

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