Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>> Now, while it's not hard to see how this state of affairs came about -
>> phonetic
>> change simply ate the definite marker alive, but only snatched a leg
>> from the
>> indefinite one - but nonetheless seems remarkable; normally, we'd
>> expect the
>> indefinite to be the less marked form, wouldn't we? Is there any other
>> languages which do the same?
>
>
> As we say: ANADEW -- perhaps also AONADEW: AnOther Natlang Alraedy Did
> it Even Worse?
I must have been tired. I wanted to point out that Hindi, which
normally doesn't mark definiteness can optionally mark an NP
as indefinite with the numeral _ek_ 'one'.
/BP 8^)
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