Re: Spoken Thoughts ( My second, better formed, non crappy Language)
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 28, 2000, 23:52 |
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:
> From a different direction, the articles could be:
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> 1) independant words (eg. English)
> 2) suffixes (eg. Scandanavian langs)
> 3) prefixes (I can't think of my examples, but I've seen them)
Hebrew.
> 4) make the distinction in the cases (eg. Turkish)
5> Make the distinction in a stem change. (eg. my Northlander, in which
kak = "tooth," but gek = "the tooth." This originally comes from a
prefixed definite article i-, which caused the raising of the stem vowel
and the voicing of the first letter. The prefix eventually wore away
under the influence of Rethdash, but the stem change remained.)
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