Re: Head vs. Dependent Marking
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 10, 1999, 20:04 |
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On 10 Jun 99, at 19:07, Steg Belsky wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:05:48 -0600 Ed Heil <edheil@...> writes:
> >Is anyone familiar with the concept of "head-marking" vs.
> >"dependent-marking" languages?
>
> >Whereas some other languages (Hebrew?) are "head-marking," which
> >means that they
> >1. mark the head noun ("construct state") in a noun-genitive
> >relationship
In one of my earliest conlangs, Pliv-Rektek, I used *both* these
cases - genitive as in Indo-European languages, and one I called
"contra-genitive" which apparently was similar to the construct
case in Hebew (of which I didn't know at the time). Either could be
used as an attribitive adjective, or both together for a sentence
asserting possession or association.
Jim Henry III
Jim.Henry@pobox.com
http://www.pobox.com/~jim.henry/gzb/gzb.htm
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