Re: "A" Personal in Spanish (was - Redundant pronouns, Tagalog, etc.)

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:05:23 +0200 vardi <vardi@...> writes:
>> I don't know that much about Arabic, but could the _a personal_ in
>> Spanish be some kind of incomplete influence from Semitic languages?
>> Hebrew has a direct object marker, _et_, so i'd assume Arabic has
>one
>> too...and i don't see why the Arabic influence on Spanish would be
>> limited to just all those vocabulary words which begin with "al" :)
>> -Stephen (Steg)
>Arabic doesn't have an equivalent of the "et" marker (had he known
>this,
>maybe Ben Gurion would have been a bit more pro-Arab - he hated "et"
>and
>advocated its virtual elimination from Hebrew, as Steg may well be
>aware).
Actually, i didn't know that....why did he want that?  I love "et"....and
less subjectively, it would mess up the entire structure of the language
to take it out!


-Stephen (Steg)

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