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

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.

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