Re: definite/indefinite articles
| From: | Peter Clark <peter-clark@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 3, 2003, 1:53 |
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On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:46 am, Pavel Iosad wrote:
> Yes, this is true of some Arkhangel'sk dialects - the suffixes are, for
> masc, fem and neut, respectively, -ot, -ta, and -to, as in _xozyain-ot_,
> _xozyaika-ta_ etc.
Fascinating. Is there a plural ending, e.g. _chasy-ty_?
> The Arkhangel'sk dialects are far removed from the standard (in
> phonetics as well as in morphology and syntax - for instance, the
> passive is 'incomplete' (I don't know the English - the patient remains
> in the accusative when the verb is passivized)), but they have never had
> anything like an independent literary tradition, and they are
> comprehensible.
So rather than _kniga byla napisana tri goda nazad_ ir would be _knigy byla
(bylo?) napisana..._? Very interesting.
:Peter
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