agglutination in Scandinavian languages

[Lars Henrik Mathiesen]

   Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:15:25 +0100
   From: Carol Jensen <jorna at web4you.dk>

   To Mark Hubey, who probably knows this, I will remind him that except in
   Jutland in Denmark, the Scandinavian languages agglutinated the definite
   article (only to the noun) rather suddenly as such things go.

Just to prevent a misunderstanding: The article that was agglutinated
was the Norse definite determiner "inn" (from the distal demonstrative
pronoun "hinn"), not the modern indefinite article (from "einn" = one,
IIRC). And 'cliticized' would probably be a better term, as there was
double declension of noun and determiner for number and case.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn at diku.dk> (Humour NOT marked)