Re: THEORY: Sandhi

From: "Nik Taylor"

> 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.
> So, do they use separate characters for the singular and plural forms?
> And is it related to Mandarin -men?
Separate characters, though the plural set are characters made up especially
for Taiwanese (actually, I think they foisted "goan" onto another character
with the same pronunciation.). Don't know if writing Taiwanese in characters
has made any progress with regard to standardization (but I doubt it), or if
"n" is related to "-men" (doubt that, too).

Kou