Re: Adjectives, Particles, and This ( etc ), and Conjunctions...
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 17, 2001, 14:54 |
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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 :-)
Korean has a three-way distinction (near the listener, near the speaker,
distant from both). And _Pacific Languages_ talks about languages with
multiple distinctions, apparently including some languages that make
distinctions between vertical and horizontal distances being considered,
or did I read that somewhere else?
Just curious myself, but how would you tell a one-way demonstrative from
a (definite?) article? :-p
YHL