2 Responses to “Datapoint for feature 85 and language wals_code_tsh”

1. Peter Svenonius Says:
   February 4th, 2010 at 12:15 am

   I question whether Shoshone has inpositions; the only thing I can find in Dayley’s grammar that might resemble an inposition is a construction in which the postposition follows a pronoun, which is coreferent with a noun that follows the postposition (pn Po N, described at the beginning of section 5.3). But that is a marked structure, and most postpositions are simply postpositional. If somebody can point me to a source identifying something that looks more like an inposition in Shoshone, I’d appreciate it.

2. Matthew Dryer Says:
   February 4th, 2010 at 12:58 pm

   What Dayley calls postpositions immediately follow the noun in Tümpisa Shoshone, preceding any postnominal modifier (see the formula on page 251 and further mention on page 257).

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