Re: Adjectives, Particles, and This ( etc ), and Conjunctions...
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 17, 2001, 15:37 |
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:54:54AM -0500, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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> > It seems that most languages have only two distictions. Three-way
> > distinctions such as in Greek seem to be more rare. Are there any natlangs
> > with only one demonstrative? Just curious :-)
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> Just curious myself, but how would you tell a one-way demonstrative from
> a (definite?) article? :-p
Hehe, very good point :-)
T
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