Re: Thematic vowel etc - correction

>-s, it is not used in a certain style in German (Revelation: 'Und
>ich sah ein weiss Ross', not 'weisses',

In poetic, emphatic and idiomatic contexts.

>and Dutch has dropped it
>completely 'een oud huis' vs. German 'ein altes Haus'. One gets the
>impression it was introduced recently, exactly for the purpose of
>delimiting the NP. Cf. Dutch 'een oude man' vs. German 'ein alter
>Mann' where Dutch again may drop the -e under circumstances I've
>forgotten.
>
>Torsten

But the [r] is barely pronounced, if at all, even in Hochdeutsch
(except for some Suebian areas, Switzerland & E-Eur German areas
such as in Hungary, Romania, Russia). In most dialects/subdialects,
there are sort of vowels instead, ranging from [a]-to-[&], e.g.
['al-ta: / 'al-da:]; or Bavarian & Austrian [ojda] "a(n) oida Mo";
"a oids [ojts] Haus". With def. art.: "da oide Mo"; "des oide
Haus". (also see Google)

George