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=== Determiners === | === Determiners === | ||
Every noun that isn't proper must be covered by a determiner. | |||
==== Articles ==== | ==== Articles ==== | ||
The two articles of Weddish are definite and specific. | |||
{| {{Table/bluetable}} style="float:left; text-align:center" | |||
|+ Definite Article - {{C2|דה|דֵה}} | |||
| || | |||
! Singular !! Antinomic !! Dual !! Plural | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="3" | Animate !! Genitive | |||
| colspan="2"| דֵס | |||
| colspan="2" | דִיס | |||
|- | |||
! Ergative | |||
| colspan="2" | דֵק | |||
| colspan="2" | דִיק | |||
|- | |||
! Absolutive | |||
| דֵר | |||
| דִיר | |||
| דֵור | |||
| דַאר | |||
|- | |||
! Inanimate !! Absolutive | |||
| דֵה | |||
| דִי | |||
| דֵו | |||
| דַא | |||
|} | |||
{| {{Table/bluetable}} style="float:right; text-align:center" | |||
|+ Specific Article - {{C2|אן|אֵן}} | |||
| || | |||
! Singular !! Antinomic !! Dual !! Plural | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="2" | Animate !! Genitive | |||
| colspan="2" | אֵנְס | |||
| colspan="2" | אִנִיס | |||
|- | |||
! Absolutive | |||
| אֵן | |||
| אֵנִיר | |||
| אִנֵור | |||
| אִנַאר | |||
|- | |||
! Inanimate !! Absolutive | |||
| אֵנֶה | |||
| אֵנִי | |||
| אִנֵו | |||
| אִנַא | |||
|} | |||
On the one hand, it is tempting to say that only '''ðeh''' is an article. It has more forms (because it can be ergative) and the lexical form is the inanimate singular (unlike the more adjectival specific article). However, both trigger mutation in feminine nouns. ''''En''' is clearly closer to English ''an'' than Englih ''one'', so for conventions sake, we say it is an article too. | |||
<br clear="both" /> | |||
==== Anarthrous ==== | ==== Anarthrous ==== | ||
Anarthrous clauses might un-adorned vocative phrase, or non-specific and indefinite. That is, they typically refer to an entity not immediately discernible from discourse and not any particular entity. | |||
==== Quantifiers ==== | ==== Quantifiers ==== | ||
Most of the remaining determiner not mentioned heretofore, are quantifiers, determiners that describe the quantity of an item. Weddish very particular with its quantifiers, distinguishing very particularly between determiners and adjectives based on position. Linguists note that these differences are off a very unique kind, what they call 'evidentials'. Quantifiers used as determiners betray a kind of "God's eye point of view" or "omniscient evidentiality" which is not present when used as an adjective. | |||
For example, consider the two following phrases | |||
* all men | |||
* the men all (of them) | |||
While these phrases are synonymous in English, in Weddish they indicate a difference in level of confidence in the information presented: ''all men'' is a phrase used when God himself would make, whereas ''the men, all of them'' is completely human and normal, allowing for natural exceptions and exceptions. | |||
==== Others ==== | ==== Others ==== | ||
Distributives, numerals, and possessives make up the remaining determiners (Interrogatives make-up an overlapping category). | |||
== Clauses == | == Clauses == | ||