20-09-2017, 08:23 AM
Articles are actually an innovation of Germanic and Latin languages - both ancestors didn't have them.
They evolved from the numeral one and the demonstrative, this is still very clear in German for example.
In languages like Russian, which have not undergone this change, we might still expect a number of demonstratives which behave similarly to articles.
They evolved from the numeral one and the demonstrative, this is still very clear in German for example.
In languages like Russian, which have not undergone this change, we might still expect a number of demonstratives which behave similarly to articles.