Re: THEORY: Sandhi
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 1:31 |
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Adam Walker wrote:
> And Taiwanese even has some vestiges of grammar. There are seperate plural
> forms of the personal pronouns marked by a sufixed -n -- goa, goan; li, lin;
> i, in. Mandarin requires an "extra" word, men, for this -- wo, women; ni,
> nimen; ta, tamen. You've got two "wasted" phonemes there AND an extra
> character to write!
So, do they use separate characters for the singular and plural forms?
And is it related to Mandarin -men?
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