Re: Subject / Object / ?
| From: | Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 13, 2004, 20:24 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, John Cowan <cowan@C...> wrote:
> Remember that you are talking to a francophone, for whom this
procedure is
> essentially impossible due to the wide separation of spoken French
and written
> French, which Christophe has himself characterized as "two separate
languages"
> on many occasions.
But in spoken French, from what I've heard, the subject
vs object distinction is even marked with a case suffix!
Observe: /lOm/ "the man (ACC)", /lOmi/ "the man (NOM)",
as in /lOmi vwa lotROm/ "the man sees the other man". ;-)
-- Christian Thalmann
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