Re: CHAT: Definite/Indefinite Article Distinction

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Pablo David Flores
| Subject: Re: Definite/Indefinite Article Distinction
|
| Actually, "kore" functions like a noun, and "kono"
| as an adjective. It's the difference between "this"
| in "this tree" and in "this is a tree".

        Sorry, thanks!

| Also, aren't those called "deictics"?

        My linguistics professor used the term "dactyls" last week. He said
they are "pointing" words, sort of "verbal fingers" to indicate what you're
"verbally pointing to".

| Japanese has three levels of deixis (this/that/yonder)
| as you said, same as Spanish (este/ese/aquel), where
| English has two. A more complicated system, anybody? :)
| --Pablo Flores

        Hawaiian's is also threefold:
këia = this near me
kënä = that near you
këlä = that over there, away from us both

        I've also been told that the intermediate distance in Japanese
(sore, sono, soko, etc.) is sometimes used as "that near you".

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