Re: Adjectives, Particles, and This ( etc ), and Conjunctions...
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 18, 2001, 1:12 |
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En réponse à Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
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> Just curious myself, but how would you tell a one-way demonstrative from
> a (definite?) article? :-p
>
French does, even if sometimes it's indeed difficult to make the difference.
But in French the demonstrative has a spatial meaning that the article doesn't
have. Moreover the anaphoric meaning is stronger with the demonstrative than
with the article.
Christophe.