Re: Polysynthetic nouns

Yes, you are correct. I apologize for the
misunderstanding.

--- "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> wrote:
> From:    Joerg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
> > Frans Plank is the one David Petersen is referring
> to.
> > He edited a book titled "Double Case: Agreement by
> Suffixaufnahme",
> > published iun 1995 by Oxford University Press.  (I
> have never
> > read that volume, just found numerous references
> to it when
> > googling for "suffixaufnahme".)  Franz Bopp was an
> early 19th
> > century linguist, one of the founding fathers of
> historical
> > linguistics.  Coincidentally, he was one of the
> first to observe
> > suffixaufnahme (in Old Georgian), but I think he
> wasn't the one
> > who coined the term.
>
> You're right, he wasn't.  It was Franz Finck who did
> so.
>
>
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