Romance articles (WAS: Just a Little Taste of Judean (Part2))

FFlores wrote:
> Latin didn't have third person pronouns. Spanish _e'l, ella, ello_
> ("he, she, it") come from those Latin demonstratives, and I think
> the articles _el, la, lo_ come from them too (they evolved differently
> because the personal pronouns were stressed, while the articles were
> not).
el/la/los/las comes from the ACCUSATIVE forms, which is also where the
object pronouns come from (which is why, except for masculine singular,
the object pronouns are identical to the articles _la veo_, _veo la
plaza_).  E'l, ella, ellos, ellas come from the NOMINATIVE forms.

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