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From: "Rachel Klippenstein" <estel_telcontar@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: 10 March, 2003 00:41
Subject: Questions
> And suppose a language loses its markers for noun
> plurality and verb past tense through a regular sound
> change.
Case in point: french. I don't know the history behind the "s"
plural in the french language though. Until when was it pronounced?
Before the final plural s was dropped in speech could an (Old? Middle?)
French speaker leave out disambiguating articles and verbs that would now
be necessary (les/sont)?
Jake