Re: Latin 3rd person pronouns [was Re: No pronoun, no article]

John Cowan wrote:
 > Garth Wallace scripsit:
 >
 >
 >>Hm? Where did you get this? I distinctly remember learning masculine,
 >>feminine, and neuter 3rd person pronouns in high school Latin.
 >
 >
 > You're probably thinking of "is, ea, id", which are basically
demonstratives:
 > weak ones that aren't strongly labeled proximal or distal, but
 > demonstratives nonetheless.  They didn't make it into the Romance
 > languages, which basically use descendants of "ille" for their articles,
 > with the exception of Sardinian which uses "ipse", and some dialects of
 > insular Catalan which use both "ille" and "ipse" with a semantic
 > contrast.

Ah, I see.