Re: VMs: RE: zara

[Pierre Abbat <phma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 13:37, Koontz John E wrote:
> Another source correlation that could arise would be gender marking.  For
> example, if nouns ending in a given gender marker are followed by verbs
> beginning with a corresponding subject-gender marker.  I don't have a
> specific example in mind.  The cases I know of where third person gender
> marking occurs in verbs and verbs involve prefixal noun and verb marking,
> e.g., in Niger-Congo languages, or suffixal noun and verb marking, e.g.,
> Afroasiatic.  In such cases you don't get the gender markings adjacent.

In Afroasiatic some tenses (imperfect in Ancient Hebrew, future in Modern 
Hebrew (which uses the progressive as present)) have a prefix conjugation.

hana`ar yo'khal - the boy eats
hana`arah to'khal - the girl eats

But the original word order, still common in Hebrew, is VSO, so the beginning 
of one word matches the end of the next.

phma
-- 
li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci
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