Using the indefinite articles

[Grover Furr-FM]

Dear Professor Israeli:

That's great! I'll try to find this journal through ILL.

I was about to write (so I still will) to ask whether this use of "odin" 
as a kind of indefinite article could be due to the influence of German 
or English -- whether it's used this way mainly by educated Russians.

Or, perhaps, originated in that way, in the 18th and early 19th 
centuries when modern standard written Russian was in formation.

Sincerely,

Grover Furr
Montclair SU

> Neopredelennoe mestoimenie odin v russkom iazyke kak pokazatel'
> introduktivnoi referentsii imeni
> Fedorova, O. V.
> Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriia 9, Filologiia, vol. 2, pp.
> 98-112, Mar 1999

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