<div>Yes, you could:<div><br></div><div>inta.k kuẓantai-kku mātram pariṭcai iru-kkum</div><div>this child-DAT only exam exist-FUT.NEUT</div><div>“Only this child will have an exam”</div><div><br></div><div>There’s only a handful of modifiers that can go after the head noun, though—mostly they come before the head (demonstratives, genitives, adjectives, numerals, relative clauses and participles).</div><div><br></div><div>Also, the modifier cannot go anywhere else without changing the meaning: putting mātram after pariṭcai would make it “This child will have only an exam”. (Likewise with ellām.) Putting it anywhere else would be ungrammatical. Thus, I don’t think it’s a floating quantifier.</div></div><div><br></div><div>I hope this makes things clearer.</div><div>Siva</div>
<div><br>-- <br>Siva Kalyan<br>Sent with <a href="http://bit.ly/sigsprw">Sparrow</a><br></div>
<p style="color: #a0a0a0;">On Tuesday, 26 July 2011 at 2:10 PM, Sebastian Nordhoff wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<span><div><div>On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:30:27 +0200, Siva Kalyan <br><<a href="mailto:sivakalyan.princeton@gmail.com">sivakalyan.princeton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Tamil does this:<br><br>inta.k kuẓantai-kaḷ-ukk ellām pariṭcai iru-kkāt=ā?<br>[PROX.DEM child-PL-DAT all]NP exam(.NOM) exist-FUT.NEG.NEUT=Q<br>“Won’t all these children have an exam?” (example from <br><a href="http://www.writermugil.com/?p=1036">www.writermugil.com/?p=1036</a>)<br></div></blockquote><br>one would have to make sure of course that ellām is not a floating <br>quantifier here. Could you use another modifier in this position?<br>Best<br>Sebastian<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Siva<br><br>--<br>Siva Kalyan<br>Sent with Sparrow (<a href="http://bit.ly/sigsprw">http://bit.ly/sigsprw</a>)<br><br>On Sunday, 24 July 2011 at 9:45 AM, Peter Arkadiev wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear typologists,<br><br>I am looking for unequivocal examples of one of the classes of Dench & <br>Evans' (1988) typology of case marker distribution over constituents of <br>an NP, viz. for "head marking". Examples I need (if they exist at all) <br>are of the following kind: (i) the case marker can attach to the head <br>noun of the NP only, and not to any of its modifiers, and (ii) the <br>position of the head can be NP-internal, i.e. neither NP-initial nor <br>NP-final. In other words, I need examples adhering to the following <br>scheme:<br><br>[ Mod N-case Mod] NP<br><br>The Uradhi example provided by Dench & Evans (1988: 5) is not <br>unequivocal, since there the noun is NP-initial, so this could well be <br>an instance of well-documented second-position (Wackernagel) <br>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> (<a href="mailto:peterarkadiev@yandex.ru">mailto: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></blockquote></div></blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: <a href="http://www.opera.com/mail/">http://www.opera.com/mail/</a><br></div></div></span>
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