Re: "I didn't know that..."
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 13, 2006, 15:43 |
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On 3/12/06, Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R A Brown" <ray@...>
> > Exactly. Although way back in PIE times the 'proto-subjunctiv' did have an
> > irrealis usage
> Okay, Ray, perfect! If you keep this up, people like Mark and myself will
> eventually copy you, and write "subjunctiv." What other more visible
> listservs are you on? How many other fellow writers write it this way? In
In Charles Sprague's _Handbook of Volapük_ (1887; online:
http://personal.southern.edu/~caviness/Volapuk/HBoV/hbv.htm)
he uses the same forms for grammatical terms in -iv and
and also "masculin" and "feminin".
"Upon the recommendation of the American Philological Association and of
the London Philological Society, I have dropped the final e, misleading
and unhistorical, from such words as "infinitiv," "feminin," etc."
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm
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