Oskar Gudlaugsson scripsit:
> I may be wrong, but English has always seemed to me to be less root-
> conscious than some other langs, such as my native language. Please take
> that as a very descriptive hypothesis; I don't claim for extensive root-
> systems to be inherently superior.
Well, English and Icelandic are at the opposite ends of the borrow vs.
make continuum. English has at least two roots for practically
everything.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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