Re: articles
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 30, 2005, 18:01 |
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:07:07 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
>I'd like to know if there are only some places in the worlds where
>languages possess articles and also if the majority does or doesn't use
>articles
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>I searched and all languages I found wich have one or two articles are IE
>or are situated near of some IE languages
The older IE languages didn't use articles either (Latin, old Germanic). And
I think Slavic languages don't have them either, but I don't know for sure.
I don't know how common they are in the world's languages, but you may
better search for "definitness" instead, since this is what the grammatical
function of articles is called.
kry@s:
j. 'mach' wust
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