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Re: definite & indefinite articles

--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "Garrett Jones" <alkaline@a...> 
wrote:
> Hello, I just joined this list yesterday. I am developing a 
"systematic
> language" named Minyeva (http://minyeva.alkaline.org/). Since 
Ceqli is a
> logical language, it's solutions to problems could be 
enlightening to
> problems in my own language.
> 
> I read the two chapters of the Ceqli grammar on the website. I 
had a
> question about the articles. Only the definite article "to" is 
explicit; the
> indefinite article is implicit.

Welcome, Garrett! Thanks for the examples -- I'll let Rex address 
the various meanings of 'the' and 'a'. But I did want to mention 
that the indefinite article is not implicit: it's "te". 

---Larry 
   "Krawn"