In languages where transitive verbs have suffixes agreeing in definiteness or in person-gender-number with their direct objects, prepositions also have suffixes that agree with their objects in the same categories.
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IF transitive verbs have suffixes agreeing in definiteness or in person-gender-number with their direct objects, THEN prepositions also have suffixes that agree with their complements in the same categories.
Keywords
agreement, verb, object, preposition, definiteness, person, gender, number
Presumably more generally: adpositions. What about lgs like French: past participles can agree with (preceding) objects in gender and number (though not person); but no “inflected” prepositions?Does Hungarian have “inflected” postpositions? It ought to, having the right verbal markings.
Presumably more generally: adpositions. What about lgs like French: past participles can agree with (preceding) objects in gender and number (though not person); but no “inflected” prepositions?Does Hungarian have “inflected” postpositions? It ought to, having the right verbal markings.