Re: No pronoun, no article

In a message dated 10/20/2003 3:49:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ray.brown@FREEUK.COM (responding to me) writes:


>> According to Alan Libert in his book _Mixed Artificial Languages_, Volapuk
>> had both a definite article ("et") and an indefinite article ("un").
>I don't know where Alan Limbert got that info from.  Maybe it's the revised
>Volapük of Arie de Jong; but it ain't Schleyer's Volapük.

Thank you for that information.

Libert gives as his source for this remark _Histoire de la langue
universelle_ (1903) and   _Les nouvelles langues internationale_ (1907/1979), both by L.
Couturat and L. Leau.

L&C could have been mistaken, or it could be, as you suggest, a question of
different versions of Volapuk.

Since I don't know any Volapuk myself, I cannot shed any further light on the
question.

Doug

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