Re: What do you call this suffix?
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 13, 2008, 12:49 |
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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:
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>kevre jetse vato-l
>big green house-?
Could this be considered a marker of some kind of definitness? Maybe not quite.
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'
Do you know by chance any theories on the origin of the Tagalog or Persian linkers or
ligatures? Relicts of older case agreement markers?
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grüess
mach
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