... that ... I got the distinct impression that the s-plural is Northern, thus Low German. Otherwise, you'd have to ask the author, whose name I forgot. And...
... of the ... the ... and the ... pluperfect ... I think it wanted to say that it is a matter of degree. Languages of trade and languages of hierarchy are...
... Ober German dialects also have s-plurals (nicht wahr Mädels und Jungs? :^) ... Really? "Die Müllers haben die Schmidts getroffen." Nominative: die...
... I just looked it up. Example 'die blauen Jungs' "matrosen". And under 'Mädel' pl. -s (umgsp.), -n (oberdt.). That sounds to me like plural -s is nothern,...
... (French)" ... is ... My answer didn't. It's your terminology, not mine. ... no ... is ... I think I should know what my points are. ... Yes since some...
... It is said of the _s-ending_ that it is of Niederdeutsch (Plattdeutsch) origin (for the s-plural construction). That's right. "Pluralendung -s (diese ist...
... But German, i.e. Hochdeutsch, is an... artificial language. (That's what they'll tell you, esp. those whose mother tongue is highly different from the ...
... terminology, ... (French)" ... ". ... That is: your answer was not answering my question ... Well, most people in the world still say they're speaking...
... Right. In the Russian sequence <de> the stop is distinctly palatalised and typically affricated as well (the orthography doesn't show that explicitly), but...
... In terms of speech you don't have to: the speech of those at the top of the relevant hierarchy is taken as the model. ... You'd be hard put to find any...
... Oh. I bet you mean that *k^v > sp in Avestan as _one of the changes_ which can happen;In the same manner *sw > xv in Avestan is too just _one of several_...
... *k^w- _always_ gives sp- in Avestan. For *sw-, the normal development is xv-, but there is indeed another possibility (xs^v-, as in xs^vas^ "6"). ...
... Actually, I was also looking at the Lithuanian evidence. The overall fit with *k^w- is obvious: when the usual correspondences match the data, one needs a...
... Or won't. Look at a straightforward analogy. Irish spelling shows a sharp break at some point in the 20th century (sorry, but I forget the exact year);...
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Mikhail Razuvaev
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Jul 2, 2003 10:34 am
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Is there any explanation or views on why English verbs of Latin origin tend to go after the perfect forms in Latin? I have just been watching this phenomenon...
... In Avestan there are just two words where initialy the k^w > sp: k^won > spa k^wen > spenta if my data are not wrong then we have: k^wes > susi k^wei-1 >...
... Actually, they are formed on the supine / past participle, not the perfect. The chief exception is Latin verbs in -izare (itself derived from Greek...
... Ops, sorry, that's what I meant. I thought of PPP (Partizip Perfekt Passiv) so that's why the confusion. Thinking between English and German puzzles me...
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... Miguel, what is the matter with you? I don't need to invent anythig. I searched for data in this time and I showed what I could find asking if these data...
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... [Sigh.] Alex, *kWe- yields Av. c^a-. Again, it's practically impossible to guess what you might mean. Avestan has no "selem" (it has no /l/ to begin with)....
