Re: Articles: A new Article?

Akhilesh Pillalamarri wrote:
 I think I invented a weird kind of article unqiue to my language. However,
some language probably has it.

 RM A brilliant idea and yet another ex. that great minds think alike :-)).
Kash has a similar article, also _e_, used to specify general/abstract
concepts, also to personify--

  malisam e rinda 'I like Music' versus--
  malisam rinda riyanju re manahan 'I like music while I'm eating'
  malisam rinda yu ~ malisam rindani 'I like the music (that I'm hearing now)'

  also:  e kundri 'The Truth' (will make you free)
  e yangandra i e lero 'The Northwind and The Sun'

 OTOH I think foodstuffs would be referenced without the article-- malisam
poren 'I like wine (in general)', could also mean 'I like (some) wine (with my
dinner). There's no partitive; tapat 'some, any' is contrastive-- malisam tapat
poreneç 'I like _some_ wines (but not others)'. And a request for wine would
probably use the future tense-- malisando poren 'I'd like some wine'