[Lexicog] Re: part of speech for phrases

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From: "John Roberts" <dr_john_roberts at sil.org>
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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Re: part of speech for phrases


> Peter Kirk said:
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> > In Turkic and I think Iranian languages, compound verbs consisting of
> > a noun and a light verb take full verb inflections on the verb part,
> > but the noun part does not inflect at all. In Turkic the verb
> > inflections are all suffixes. In Persian there are also verb prefixes,
> > which in these compounds are prefixed to the light verb, not to the
> > noun part.
> >
> This is not quite accurate. In Farsi the noun part of compound verbs can
be
> inflected for object agreement, e.g.
>
> komak kard    'he helped'
> komak-am kard    'he helped me'
>
> In Amele (Papuan), on the other hand, object agreement goes on the weak
verb
> in such compounds, e.g.
>
> bail qoia    'he painted'
> bail q-it-ia    'he painted me'
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> John Roberts
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