head-only case marking in NPs?

[Siva Kalyan]

Tamil does this:

inta.k kuẓantai-kaḷ-ukk ellām pariṭcai iru-kkāt=ā?
[PROX.DEM child-PL-DAT all]NP exam(.NOM) exist-FUT.NEG.NEUT=Q
“Won’t all these children have an exam?” (example from www.writermugil.com/?p=1036)

Siva  

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On Sunday, 24 July 2011 at 9:45 AM, Peter Arkadiev wrote:

> Dear typologists,
>  
> 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:
>  
> [ Mod N-case Mod] NP
>  
> 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.  
>  
> Thank you in advance!
>  
> Best wishes,
>  
> Peter
>  
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> Peter Arkadiev, PhD
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> Russian Academy of Sciences  
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