Rejected posting to LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG

[Frans Plank]

>Resent-from: Hartmut Haberland <hartmut at babel.ruc.dk>
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>Date:         Wed, 14 Feb 2001 03:24:39 -0500
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>Marcel Erdal wrote ...
>
>
>"In fact, no other interrogatives other than the ordinal
>interrogative [in Hebrew] are ever linked to this definite article, so tha=
>t this
>ha- should probably, by itself, be considered to be a marker of
>ordinality beside being the definite article. Come to think of it, the
>definite article seems to be pretty closely linked to ordinals in
>French, German, English, Danish, Spanish, Modern Greek etc. as well."
>
>Come to think of it: so it is to the superlative. Cf. Modern Greek
>
>=F3morfos		'beautiful'
>pio =F3morfos		'more beautiful'
>o pio =F3morfos		'the most beautiful'
>
>(Note that the definite article is obligatory in Greek - 'most
>beautiful' has to be expressed in some other way, e.g. reduplication
>- Anna Wierzbicka wrote a paper about this some years ago, I think
>based mainly on Italian data - -, and that (or: because) the definite arti=
>cle is
>the only element distinguisthing the superlative from the
>comparative.)
>
>For whatever it's worth.
>
>Hartmut Haberland
>
>Hartmut Haberland
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