Re: [tied] Nominative: A hybrid view

On Thu, 29 May 2003 14:06:02 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>
wrote:

>On Thu, 29 May 2003 13:04:31 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>
>wrote:
>
>>In Japanese, -wa is used as a topic
>>marker. In Akkadian, the topic/predicate marker is -ma. In Sumerian
>>the verb "to be" is <me>, and the enclitic copula is -(a)m.
>
>I forgot: <ba-> is also the topic marker in Basque, and <-ma> is the
>indirect object marker in Hausa.

And I also forgot: a topic marker can not only represent an earlier
copula, but also a relative/interrogative pronoun such as *ma(:)
"what" (Afro-Asiatic, Kartvelian, Uralic, Altaic).

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