Re: basic morphemes of a loglang
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 1, 2003, 1:19 |
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:57:25 +0100, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
wrote:
> At 06:13 30.11.2003, Steg Belsky wrote:
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>> Hmmm... possibly... although it's only left on the nouns. Would it
>> make sense that there used to be whole nother series of pronouns, which
>> ended in |s|, |l|, |t|, |dh| (agent noun), |d|, instead of just |z|
>> (subject) and |sh| (non-subject), and then they all just fell out of
>> use?
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> I see no problem with vestiges of a gender
> (or rather class-) system which has been lost
> in pronouns.
The different Japanese counting words? I don't know the technical term (nor
enough Japanese to quote them), but they're a gender system if ever I saw
one, and wa/ga/etc mark subject and so forth in non-gender ways. And
pronouns? Does Japanese even have "real" pronouns?
Paul
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