Re: Marking case with articles

Of course Teonaht does this in spades:  Li beto taitaf  "the boy laughs"

    (stimulus, so non-volitional)  Le beto taitaf "the boy laughs
derisively"
    (volitional)   il aoto li beto oua  "the car (acc.) the boy
(non-vol.) hears."

In short, _li_ marks non-volitional subject; _le_ marks volitional
subject,
and _il_ marks all objects.

Sally

Kristian Jensen wrote:

> Matt Pearson wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Gary Shannon wrote:
> >
> >> I'm still playing with the grammar one of my older conlangs
> >> called Tazhi, and I was toying with the idea of dropping case
> >> endings in favor of marking case and number with the article.
> >>
> >> Has anyone seen or used this approach before in any conlang or
> >> natlang?