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user:zeman:interset:brainstorming [2007/10/03 17:37] zeman Definiteness. |
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| * Now de-facto subpos of adjectives (normal or referencing). | * Now de-facto subpos of adjectives (normal or referencing). | ||
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| * Attribute of referencing (pronomial) nouns and adjectives. Means reflexive reference to itself. Does not apply to numerals and adverbs. Czech examples: sebe, se, sobě, si, sebou (personal), svůj (possessive), | * Attribute of referencing (pronomial) nouns and adjectives. Means reflexive reference to itself. Does not apply to numerals and adverbs. Czech examples: sebe, se, sobě, si, sebou (personal), svůj (possessive), | ||
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| + | ==== definiteness ==== | ||
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| + | Bulgarian seems to be the reason why we need to separate the lexical definiteness (or demonstrativeness) from the morphological one. Most Bulgarian nouns, adjectives and pronouns allow for suffixes (-at, -ta, -to, -te) that change the default indefinite word forms to definite ones. Even indefinite pronouns (lexical definiteness = indefinite) can distinguish the two states. Thus, we have lexically indefinite morphologically indefinite word forms (нещо, едно), and lexically indefinite morphologically definite word forms (едната, | ||
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| + | Since having two definitnesses creates room for confusion, we ought to set both in decoders of all " | ||
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