Re: definite/indefinite articles
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 3, 2003, 10:20 |
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dAt 21:46 1.4.2003 +0400, Pavel Iosad wrote:
>The Arkhangel'sk dialects are far removed from the standard (in
>phonetics as well as in morphology and syntax - for instance, the
>passive is 'incomplete' (I don't know the English - the patient remains
>in the accusative when the verb is passivized)), but they have never had
>anything like an independent literary tradition, and they are
>comprehensible.
Interesting news for me, since it must have been these dialects which
provided the Russian input to Russenorsk
The similarity between Arxangel'sk and Bulgarian articles is really
fascinating.
Maybe its precursor was optionally present in proto-Slavic?
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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