<div>Tamil does this:<div><br></div><div>inta.k kuẓantai-kaḷ-ukk ellām pariṭcai iru-kkāt=ā?</div><div>[PROX.DEM child-PL-DAT all]NP exam(.NOM) exist-FUT.NEG.NEUT=Q</div><div>“Won’t all these children have an exam?” (example from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(14, 119, 74); font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; font-size: small; ">www.writermugil.com/?p=1036</span>)</div><div><br></div><div>Siva</div></div>
<div><br>-- <br>Siva Kalyan<br>Sent with <a href="http://bit.ly/sigsprw">Sparrow</a><br></div>
<p style="color: #a0a0a0;">On Sunday, 24 July 2011 at 9:45 AM, Peter Arkadiev wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div>Dear typologists,<br><br>I am looking for unequivocal examples of one of the classes of Dench & Evans' (1988) typology of case marker distribution over constituents of an NP, viz. for "head marking". Examples I need (if they exist at all) are of the following kind: (i) the case marker can attach to the head noun of the NP only, and not to any of its modifiers, and (ii) the position of the head can be NP-internal, i.e. neither NP-initial nor NP-final. In other words, I need examples adhering to the following scheme:<br><br>[ Mod N-case Mod] NP<br><br>The Uradhi example provided by Dench & Evans (1988: 5) is not unequivocal, since there the noun is NP-initial, so this could well be an instance of well-documented second-position (Wackernagel) case-marking. <br><br>Thank you in advance!<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Peter<br><br>-- <br>Peter Arkadiev, PhD<br>Institute of Slavic Studies<br>Russian Academy of Sciences <br>Leninsky prospekt 32-A 119334 Moscow<br><a href="mailto:peterarkadiev@yandex.ru">peterarkadiev@yandex.ru</a><br><a href="http://www.inslav.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=279">http://www.inslav.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=279</a><br></div></div></span>
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