Re: Degrees of volition in active languages (was Re:Chevraqis: asketch)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 13, 2000, 19:25 |
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At 13:57 13.8.2000 -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>Mangiat wrote:
>
> > Italian is one of the few languages I know to use articles even with nouns
> > already determinated by possessives:
> >
> > 'il mio libro' - 'my book'
> > 'la mia casa' - 'my house' (here there is an exception: you can say 'casa
> > mia' as well)
>
>There are dialects of Spanish that do this too.
And of Swedish and Norwegian (even standard Norwegian):
hus-et mitt bil-en min käring-a min
house_the my car_the my wife_the my ;-)
/BP 8^)>
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