Re: Topics and foci/focuses... Wow, now I get it!!!
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 6, 2001, 9:32 |
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At 21:43 2001-05-05 -0400, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
>In Icelandic the word "just" is also used colloquially to mark topic; I
>don't know if it's a calque of the English usage, or just a coincidence:
Hardly calqued from English, since Swedish and AFAIK Norwegian have the
same use of _bara/bare_ and _då/da_.
/BP 8^)>
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