Re: Plural prefix?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 6, 2004, 20:25 |
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En réponse à Ray Brown :
>Of course, as Shreyas rightly observes, spoken French does just this, with
>the additional funnction
>of definiteness ~ indefiniteness, cf. the word for "school":
> SING. PLURAL
> DEFINITE: /lekOl/ /lezekOl/
>INDEFINITE: /ynekOl/ /dezekOl/
Actually, to be more correct, and closer to actual pronunciations, you
should write:
SING. PLURAL
DEFINITE /le'kOl/ /lEze'kOl/
INDEFINITE /yne'kOl/ /dEze'kOl/
The E~e distinction is phonemic.
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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