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From: Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>
Date: Friday, July 4, 2003 11:52 pm
Subject: Re: [Nostratica] Re: Ideas on Proto-Uralic Syntax and
Inflection
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> On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:04:20 +0000, Rob <magwich78@...>
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> >Proto-Uralic canonical word-
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> >order is reconstructed as SOV, which means that it had
> postpositions
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> >and modifiers preceding their heads. This is at odds,
> however, with
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> >the fact that PU also had possessive suffixes, since its word-
> order
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> >means that possessors would precede their possessions.
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> This doesn't apply to possessive suffixes. SOV languages have the
> order
> Poss N, but NPoss (which can even be combined as Poss NPoss, as
> exemplified
> in e.g. Turkish (Comrie p. 90): kadIn-In �avug-u "the woman's
> chicken",
> literally <woman-GEN chicken-POSS> "woman-of chicken-
> her").
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Very minor point: it is "tavuk" not "chavuk". I hope Comrie did
not write that.
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