head-only case marking in NPs?

[Sebastian Nordhoff]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:30:27 +0200, Siva Kalyan  
<sivakalyan.princeton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)

one would have to make sure of course that ellām is not a floating  
quantifier here. Could you use another modifier in this position?
Best
Sebastian


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> 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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