Re: Russian "a" and Norwegian "ikke/ingen" (was: Re: Question about Latin.)

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:20:29AM +0200, Philippe Caquant wrote:
> We say "Je n'ai pas de voiture", "je n'ai pas
> d'enfants" (interesting, normally 'voiture' singular,
> but 'enfants' plural).
Hm .  If |enfants| is plural, why isn't it preceded by |des| instead of |d'| ?

> Damned, this looks all very complicated.
Indeed.

-Marcos

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