Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 4:27 |
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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
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