
Conlangery #64: Head-marking vs Dependent-marking
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The Importance of Inflected Prepositions
All of the Celtic languages do this. You might have prepositions that act like normal prepositions with nouns, but then inflect for them with pronouns. So does the preposition become almost like a verb in the sense that it's conjugated, slash declined? It only marks for pronouns. There's a marked person, basically. Yeah, it affects only marked person, possibly gender. That's a little less among them ending. Although subjunctive prepositions, that sounds like it could have some interesting ideas behind it. Mm-hmm. I'm not sure what that is. Your brain does not have pain receptors.
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