Head-marked datives -- correction to Claire Bowern's posting

[Bill McGregor]

>Bill
 
>McGregor treats the equivalent items as affixes in Nyulnyul

No, I have always treated these as clitics in Nyulnyul and other
Nyulnyulan languages, never as affixes. In the Nyulnyul of the speaker I
worked with the status as clitics vs. separate words is not 100% clearcut. 

Bill

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