| From: | Christopher Bates <chris.maths_student@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 12, 2007, 18:07 |
> > > Many languages develop their articles from older demonstratives. Take Latin > for example, with a relatively free syntax, allowed for a position before or > after the noun it describes, e.g.: <ille lupus> or <lupus ille> >Basque also did this. The article -a is derived from the root har- "that" IIRC, and the r still surfaces in combination with some case markers.