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Re: What do you call this suffix?

From:JR <fuscian@...>
Date:Sunday, April 13, 2008, 15:54
on 4/13/08 3:49 PM, J. 'Mach' Wust at j_mach_wust@YAHOO.COM wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:09:47 +0300, Josh Roth wrote: > >> In Khafos, nouns take a certain suffix (-l/-el/-ol/) when preceded by at >> least one adjective. Ex: >> >> kevre jetse vato-l >> big green house-? > > Could this be considered a marker of some kind of definitness? Maybe not > quite.
Nope. The NP could be translated as definite or indefinite, depending on the context.
> This reminds me of the phenomenon that in certain Alemannic German dialects, > the definit > article takes a different form when it is followed by an adjective or a noun. > I don't have any > idea how to call this either: > > d hüser > the-Nom-Plur houses > 'the houses' > > di grüene hüser > the-Nom-Plur-? green-Nom-Plur-Weak houses > 'the green houses' > > di grüene > the-Nom-Plur-? green-Nom-Plur-Weak > 'the green ones'
Interesting.... (Is that first one supposed to be just 'd' without a vowel?) Do you know how this distinction originated?
> Do you know by chance any theories on the origin of the Tagalog or Persian > linkers or > ligatures? Relicts of older case agreement markers? > > --- > grüess > mach
I don't know about the Tagalog -ng/na, but the Persian -(y)e originated from a relative particle. Josh Roth

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