--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
wrote:
> From now on, I'll regularly be posting about
> Venedian grammar.
>
> Part one - the article - will be very short.
Ah, an easy chapter! Is this gonna be like "Anian in
10 Easy Lessons - the Other 300 Lessons are Brain
Explosively Hard"?
> Wenedyk has no articles. If Latin didn't have them,
> and the Slavic languages
> don't have them, then why would Wenedyk be supposed
> to have articles?
Hm. There's no reason why it should, if that's what
you decide! It took a while for Romance to develop
them; Wenedyk's adstrate could quell that tendency if
it's strong enough. On the other hand, Romanian has
articles in spite of being surrounded by Slavic
languages. French has them despite a long lived Celtic
language (Gaulish) that didn't have them.
> Sometimes it strikes me as weird, though. Vulgar
> Latin shows nothing but a
> rudimentary tendency towards using demonstrative
> pronouns like articles, and it
> must have been much later that they became common.
> Nevertheless, every single
> Romance language has them (and most Romance conlangs
> too).
I think the usage increased as time passed.
> My next post on Wenedyk will be about nouns. I hope
> I'll manage to do it today.
Yay!
> Jan
Padraic.
=====
il dunar-li c' argeont ayn politig;
celist il pozponer le mbutheor ayn backun gras.
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