[gothic-l] Re: "the"

[Ingemar Nordgren]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at o...> wrote:
>
> So, what do we think?  Was the use of a definite article in Romance
> inspired by Germanic?  Or vice-versa even?

Hi Llama nom,

I wonder if not Protogermanic could have lacked definite article and
hence Gothic which is closest to PGmc. The Nordic  languages as well,
being geographically random, could have evaded  some influence from
the 1st language shift and kept the original lack of definite
articles, but then modified with an entclinic system. If so it is
indeed true that NGmc is closer to EGmc. The idea of NWGmc I have
never supported.

Best
Ingemar




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