Balkan tongues (was: biloxi update)

[ROOD DAVID S]

No, Gothic behaves very much like German and Old English in this regard.

David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Rory M Larson wrote:

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> >> (Dave) The only other similarity and possible influence I can think of
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> is that both Bulgarian and Rumanian have post-posed definite articles,
> e.g. Bulg. cveteto (-to) and Rum. calul (-ul), although this trait isn't
> shared by Greek; I don't know about other Balkan languages.  This is of
> course the opposite of other Mod Latin languages which have the article
> before the noun. <<
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> > (Alfred) My guess is that the Balkan substrate (Dacian?) might have had
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> > feature (of post-posed definite articles) and some languages (like
> > Latin) were 'open' to it (homo ille vs. ille homo -> omul - l'uomo,
> > l'homme) but others were not. Yet, this doesn't work well for Slavic
> > tongues (cf. Bulgarian!).
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> Swedish, and I suppose Norwegian and Danish, have post-posed definite
> articles too.  What about Gothic?
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> Rory
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