Re: CHAT: Definite/Indefinite Article Distinction
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 7, 2002, 16:32 |
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--- Andreas Johansson wrote:
> My French isn't rusty for the simple reason that I don't know it, but the sg
> indefinite article _un_/_une_, derived from _unus_, hasn't prevented French
> from acquiring a pl indefinite article _des_.
If you count "des" really as an article, you ought to include "du", "de la"
etc. as well. But in fact, this is just the combination of a preposition with
the definite article.
> I can't see any reason why "some", or something else, couldn't been
> pressganged into service as a pl indefinite article in English despite the
> sg one bein related to "one".
Agreed.
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