Re: Arabic article (was: Corpses)

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> But I'd still be interested to know when Spanish - and other Romance langs for
> that matter - acquired articles.
Clearly deep in the Vulgar Latin period, considering how universal they are
in all Romance languages.  True that Sardinian and Alghero Catalan use
ipse-derived rather than ille-derived articles, and Romanian postposes its
ille-derived article, but still the idea of articles must have been in the
air before the Romance languages split up.

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