Muke Tever wrote:
> Hungarian apparently marks definiteness/indefiniteness of the object of a
verb
> with a different verbal inflection.
>
> Látok egy madarat. "I see a bird."
> Látom a madarat. "I see the bird."
>
> (But it also has articles, as seen--<a(z)> definite and <egy> indef)
>
Not unlike Buginese (Indonesia):
mitaka? manu? "I see a bird/birds"
m-ita-ka? manu?
prf(act.)-see-I/subj. bird
uitai manu?e "I see the bird(s)"
u-ita-i manu?-e
I/subj-see-3/obj bird-def
(There is a def. marker /-e/, but no indef.)
*mitaka? manu?e
*uitai manu?