Re: [tied] Nominative: A hybrid view

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 22364
Date: 2003-05-29

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.

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