Re: Unmarked definiteness

David Peterson wrote:


<<In my Turkish book it says that /bir/ (the word for "one") is the
indefinite
article.
I brought that point up on the list awhile back, though, and someone who is
familiar with Turkish said that even that assertion was false.>>

I'm not very much familiar with Turkish, but I'm gathering Turkic material
for my aposteriori project Kuman Tyli and I found no articles in any Turkic
lang at least according to descriptions given by Russian (Soviet) linguists.
It is certainly true that _bir_ seems to mutate into an indefinite article
in Turkish and some other Turkic langs, but for now it clearly is NOT it.

-- Yitzik