Re: Arabic article (was: Corpses)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 11, 2003, 17:40 |
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At 19:45 10.11.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>When did Spanish acquire proper articles, BTW? Where they already there when
>the Arabs turned up, or did they arose only later? In the later case it's easy
>enough to see why the proto-Spaniards treated the al- as part of the word
>proper, I'd say.
It was the Berber who made out the bulk of the
muslim armies in Spain who treated the Arabic
article as part of the word because Berber
lacks definite articles. Berber langs still
treat the article of new Arabic loans as
part of the word.
/BP 8^)
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