Re: Articles, determiners, quantifiers, whatever...
| From: | Rik Roots <rik@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 3, 2004, 10:24 |
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On Saturday 03 Jul 2004 01:33, Remi Villatel wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
Hi, Remi
> Hence my question: Do I have a very twisted mind? ;-) Well, in fact: Are
> there some conlangs with a very complex system of acticles that goes beyond
> "a, the, some"?
>
The Gevey object "status" system includes features which in English would be
rendered through articles - though the similarities are only approximate.
There's more info on http://www.kalieda.org/gevey/status.html (which might
seem like gobbledegook on the first read - but should become clearer once the
difference between causative and applicative nouns is grasped).
Rik