Re: for Alvin

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> >This guy
> >
> >http://www.geocities.com/erwan-ar-skoul/gothmodgramm.htm
> >
> >tries to interpret that as meaning Crimean Gothic had a postponed
> >article (masc. -o).
>
> Feminine, actually. But Busbecq's account quite clearly states

that Crimean

> Gothic article was <the> or <tho> (anteposed).
>

Anteposed and postponed article are not mutually exclusive. "Double
definiteness" with adjectives is mandatory in Swedish and optional in
Norwegian: <den gamle mannen>, vs. Danish <den gamle mand>

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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Torsten