Re: definite/indefinite articles
From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
Date: | Friday, April 4, 2003, 10:38 |
Hi, ppl!
Since I'm now 360 msgs behind because of my trip to a conference (as an
interpreter), smbody may have already answered the question. I'm just popping up
to shaw y'all I'm back again, safe and sound :-)
João Ricardo Oliveira ikrí:
<<are articles an Indo-European creation?>>
No, they are not. Natlangs from other families have them too. For example:
Hebrew (Semitic f.): def.art. ha(+gemination); Hungarian (Uralic f.): def.art.
a/az, ind.art. egy.
Yitzik
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