Re: Unmarked definiteness
| From: | David Peterson <thatbluecat@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 23, 2004, 23:25 |
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Doug wrote:
<<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.>>
Uhh...he says the word for "house" is the indefinite article? So "a house"
would
be /ev ev/?
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.
-David
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