RE : [tied] Re: North of the Somme

> > No definite articles either way.
>
> > Besides, I wasn't talking about free definite articles,
> > but about preposed articles, as in West Germanic.
>
> Free-standing includes preposed; it wasn't particularly
> common, but two of my examples do show the type (<sá inn
> lævísi Loki>, <inir spökustu menn>).

If the NP includes an adjective, preposed definite articles are
standard for Da., Sw., No., with additional suffixed article mandatory
for Sw., optional for No. That's not interesting here, the point was
that (West)jysk has no suffixed article like every other North
Germanic language and dialect.


Torsten