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Conlangery #76: Definiteness

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How to Mark Indefinite Subjects?

There's a difference between indefiniteness in the grammatical sense that we're talking about here. If you make, if you make something a topic, it's probably going to be definite. And some languages are very sensitive to this distinction. Some people will talk about sort of two axes of definiteness and specificity.

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