Note 92 — Chapter III · THE THREE CAUSES OF CHANGE IN LANGUAGE.
Reading edition
“Ein Problem der Homerischen Textkritik” (1876), p. 95. Pott (“Wilhelm v. Humboldt ueber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues,” i. p. 15) suggests that the change of the Latin demonstrative into the article of the Romance languages was due to Teutonic influences.