Re: S mobile (Was : PS Emphatics)

Wikipedia explain a bit about them. Evidently some
Caucasian languages have as many as 8.
The general pattern, if I understand correctly is
Masculine
Feminine
Animate non-human
Inanimate
--although it's often ideosyncratic
Does this pattern correspond with what you have in
mind?


--- etherman23 <etherman23@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps you can hash out what you have
> > Don't some Caucasus languages have something akin
> to
> > noun-class prefixes? Like 4 or so? Excuse my
> senility.
>
> I know that they have them, but that's the extent of
> my knowledge on
> the subject.
>
>

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