ordinal interrogative pronouns

Hartmut Haberland hartmut at RUC.DK
Sun Feb 11 14:57:39 UTC 2001


Anders Ahlqvist (ahlqvist at nuigalway.ie) was so kind to point out two
errors in my earlier posting today:

1. It should, of course, be 'Hur mång-te gång-en ...' rather than 'Hur
mång-te gång ...' since 'gång' has to take the definite form in this
construction.

2. In the Finnish example, it should be

mones-ko            päivä   tänään on?
many.INDEF-INTERROG day.NOM today  is

rather than 'päivää'; there is no partitive involved (I just made a
mistake when I copied the phrase from the dictionary).

Sorry for the mess-up and thanks to Anders for pointing out the errors
to me.

Hartmut



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