Re: articles again
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 14, 1998, 13:14 |
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lucasso wrote:
> but what about other languages, have they got articles (i know greek and
> celtics from IE and arabic from semitic, are there more)...
> and what about indefinite article? in IE it sounds like derived from
> one/eins/un/uno... am i correct?
I think that most languages with definite articles derived it from the
demonstrative pronouns, but I'm not entirely sure. English "an" does
come from "one" (OE _an_, with a macron over the a), as do the other IE
langs.
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