Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

Isn't this what the romance langs did? Their definites were originally Latin
demonstratives, I believe; but what they had before that happened, I can't
remember!
Mike
>
> 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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