Re: Unmarked definiteness
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 23, 2004, 22:16 |
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In a message dated 8/23/2004 9:53:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, andjo@FREE.FR
writes:
>for certain nouns, the definite form is
>simply the most basic form of the stem, while the indefinite is marked by a
>preceeding article. . . . Is there any other
>languages which do the same?
In _Definiteness_, Christopher Lyons puts Turkish in that category (definite
Ns are unmarked unless they're direct objects, while indefinites have "ev" as
an indefinite article). He also mentions a language called "Mam" with marked
indefinites and unmarked definites.
Doug