--- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
How so? They were conquered at the same time by the
same berber army with Arab captains. And only
Barcelona was freed from Arab rule (but not influence)
at an early date. The other Catalan speaking lands
were freed in the Reconquista at approximately the
same rate as the Castilian and Protuguese lands.
Adam
>
> /BP 8^)
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> B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete
> X)
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