Degrees of volition in active languages (was Re:Chevraqis:asketch)

J Matthew Pearson wrote:
> a different series of articles is used with proper names:
>
> Malagasy:
>
>   ny boky      "the book"
>   i Noro       "Noro"
Would i Boky mean "The Book", especially as part of a title (like, "i
Boky [of Job]" for The Book of Job)?

> My own conlang, Tokana has this feature.
Historically, the gender prefixes in Watakassí were definite articles,
which is the reason for the double-marking of number, for example,
tiwwitái (tiw- = gender 1 plural, witá = woman, -i = plural), originally
it was simply number concord.

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