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Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Friday, December 7, 2001, 4:27
On Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 08:17 , Nik Taylor wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote: >> What about the French "l'État, c'est moi," where "moi" (accusative?) is >> distinct from the more usual "je" (nominative?)? > > _Je_ and _me_ are clitics, _moi_ is the free form, which does not have > case.
Where could I find an explanation of the above? I wish I'd saved Christophe's explanation on the deceptiveness of the appearance of French. :-/ I've never been able to figure out how/why je/me are clitics, mainly because the only thing I know for sure is a clitic is "que" of Latin "[X] [Y]que," and I could even be wrong about that. Humbly yours, Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com] http://pegasus.cityofveils.com The moving cursor blinks, and having blinked, moves on.

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