GENERAL CONCLUSION In scholarly debates on the origin of DA, the corpus of OA texts has not received full attention. Thus, there is a lack of comparative studies between DA and OA. Yet a study of this type serves a twofold purpose: it contributes to providing an answer to questions of the origin of DA, and it also gives fresh insights into both OA and DA. The contextual discussion of the literary and grammatical features of OA texts, when brought into contact with DA, yields the following results:
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