Re: No pronoun, no article

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> If you want to
> indicate clearly what you mean and how many, just use demonstratives
> and/or adjectives.
Is it always the case, as I suspect, that definite articles grow out of
demonstratives, and indefinite ones out of the number "one"?  At the
very least this device has evolved several times independently.

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