Re: Terkunan revision

On 10/8/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>      The last one was particularly confusing I think.  Now that _il_
>      has become _le_, it can obviously not be prefixed anymore because
>      _le kan_ is already occupied.  So there is now an exception that
>      the 3rd persion pronoun cannot be prefixed and the normal
>      suffixed possessive with _de_ must be used:
>
>          kan de le  - his/her dog
>
>      Although an exception, is seems very reasonable to me.
Indeed; it seems to me like a natural result had the two merged
through, say, regular sound change.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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