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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!thorinn
- From: thorinn@diku.dk (Lars Henrik Mathiesen)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: postpositive articles in English
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.105428.3095@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 10:54:28 GMT
- References: <168A41249F.JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
- Sender: thorinn@tyr.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 12
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- JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
- >So far as I know, no Germanic languages have postposed articles.
-
- In the modern North Germanic languages, nouns have a definite form,
- used in very simple definite noun phrases, which historically seems to
- be derived from a separately inflected, postposed article "hinn". (I
- believe that Icelandic still has the double inflection, and it
- survives in stock phrases in Danish, at least.) In more complex cases,
- an preposed definite article is used, with language-dependent rules
- for the definiteness of the noun.
-
- Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@diku.dk> (Humour NOT marked)
-