Re: Sprachsbund was Re: Question

Thanks.  Certainly will do so.  (It'll help me get back into French - at
least 15 years since I last touched it.)

Wesley Parish

On Thursday 18 April 2002 00:25, you wrote:
> En réponse à Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>:
> > Consider the Hispanic Peninsular languages - they were in a Sprachsbund
> > with
> > Arabic once.  It's more than likely they took some of their more
> > endearing
> > complications from the Arabic of that period.  Perhaps your Reman
> > is/could be
> > fitted into such a conculture?  Just a thought.
>
> Maybe... The presence of a single article (no indefinite article) which is
> invariable and used even when demonstratives are used, the simplification
> of conjugations and the keeping of synthetic passives could fit in. But
> those are only grammatical evolutions. For the rest, it looks a bit like
> Sardinian: it seems to have evolved quite separately, in near isolation. In
> my webpage there is a grammar of Reman if you're interested. It's only in
> French though.
>
> Christophe.
>
> http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
>
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