Re: Wenedyk - The article
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 1, 2002, 21:12 |
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As I understand it, it's very common for articles to develop from
demonstratives (in the Romance case, mostly from Latin "ille"), so there is
no need to suspect the influence of any other languages.
Doug
In a message dated 9/1/2002 4:27:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ask4it@GPUL.ORG
writes:
> And that's why I wonder: why? (like the song from Annie Lennox
> :-)) I mean: when and from where did romance languages develop articles?
> If latin didn't have them, they could only be taken from
> germanic/celtic/goth/some other "barbarian" language, isn't it? Or did
> they evolve "just because"?
>
> --
> Roberto Suarez Soto
>