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Re: Deictics was Re: Definite/Indefinite Article Distinction

From:Pablo David Flores <pablo-flores@...>
Date:Sunday, September 8, 2002, 15:04
wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> writes:

> Inuktitut:that up there, that over there, that to my left, &c. > several other languages have as complicated deictic systems
Ah yes. Yivokuchi has a related left/right/both contrast for "bilateral nouns" (mostly body parts). viechen yin 'his left hand' jichen ye 'my right hand' tichen jho 'both your hands' --Pablo Flores http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/index.html "The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain." -- G'Kar quoting G'Quon, in "Babylon 5"