Re: No pronoun, no article

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> It seems to be common indeed. The case of Sardinian "so" from Latin
> "ipse": "same", shows that other roads are possible, but the deictic way
> seems to be preferred.  the evolution of indefinite singular
I think that "ipse" became a demonstrative first in Vulgar Latin.
Note that "same" as a meaning of "ipse" is itself VL; in CL, "ipse"
means "-self" in the emphatic rather than reflexive sense ("ipse dixit" =
"he himself has said it").

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