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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "And Rosta" <a.rosta@v...> wrote: > [Making good on my pledge to reply....] > > Garrett to Ceqli list: > > A while back on the conlang list I compiled a list > > of meanings for "the" and "a". It might be useful for you to have > > this list if you're intending on defining articles precisely for Ceqli. --SNIP-- > This seems pretty reasonable. XS makes do with two articles, which, > with the addition of quantifiers, covers all meanings we know of. > That'd be a minimal system, which could be augmented for > demonstrativeness (kra) or definiteness (te, sao). > And, I skimmed through your post and was most interested in your summary. Two articles with quantifiers seems like a nice-sized system :-) . As I recall, we were thinking for Ceqli of: a definite article; a noun phrase marker that serves as an indefinite article when one is desired; a proper name marker; and an article for something that is definite to the speaker but not to the listener. (I hope I remembered them all.) What do you think of such a system? ---Krawn