Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:33:09 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>The reason I asked is I'm reading a collection of papers by
>Vennemann, as I announced ;-), and in one he refers to a dialect of
>Basque which has preposed the usual definite Basque 'article' -a,
>thus <a (noun)-a>.

Not quite. Bizkaian has a pleonastic construction of the demonstrative
pronoun: au gizon au "this man this" (= Sp. este hombre), ori gizon ori
"that man that" (= Sp. ese hombre), a gizon a ("that man that") (= Sp.
aquel hombre). The definite article (-a < *har) is only suffixed, as
everywhere in Basque.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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