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Probability of Article Replacement?

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 19:14
I asked a question in my "doubt" post, which nobody's tried to answere yet.
Working on the theory that this is more due to it being buried in a long and
rambling post, I'll just re-ask:

How probable is it for a language that has a definite article to replace it
with a form derived from a demonstrative? Are any such examples known from
real-world languages?

                                                 Andreas

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