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From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
Subject: Re: Usage rules for articles "the" and "a"?
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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 20:32:06 GMT
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Colin Fine <colin@kindness.demon.co.uk> writes:

>Note also that there are other strategies for showing definiteness:
>Finnish uses the accusative only for definite objects, and Turkish the
>genetive only for definite possessors.

In Hebrew, I believe, the accusative particle "et" is restricted to
definite objects.  The resulting information is usually redundance,
tho, because a common noun will have "ha-" in any case.
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