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Re: Articles and the Givenness Hierarchy

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Sunday, May 1, 2005, 19:37
On Sun, 01 May 2005 15:03:23 -0400, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
wrote:

> think it will be marked with {zero} ~ "oÿnu" (ου̂s) ~ "ha" (ϩα), but I
WTF? I know for damn sure I spelled "oÿnu" correctly, since I used the Character Map. Here it is again: ου̂νs -- that's omicron, upsilon, circumflex, nu, "digamma-equivalent-character-that-looks-like-s", pronounced like /oy_^nu/ ~ /oi\_^nu/ ~ /ou\_^nu/ ~ /oM_^nu/ depending on which vowel pronunciation scheme you happen to favor. The most canonical form is the second, but opinion is divided. Paul