Re: Arabic article (was: Corpses)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 13, 2003, 16:46 |
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At 15:41 13.11.2003, Adam Walker wrote:
>And not only that, but if you look at the equivilant
>words in Catalan they frequently lack the fused
>articles, so even the Catalans living right next to
>them under the same Arabic influence recognized the
>article and detatced it before borrowing.
Preumably the Catalans received the influence
later, and from standard Arabic rather than from
Berber-Arabic pidgin.
/BP 8^)
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