From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
> Peter Bleackley scripsit:
>
> > Are there any languages that mark a definite/indefinite distinction by
> > means other than articles?
>
> Arabic marks indefiniteness with an inflection; Persian marks definiteness
> with an inflection. IIRC.
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)
*Muke!
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