Re: YAEGT: 's (was Re: Standard Average European (was: case system))

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson
<melroch@...> wrote:
>  That was because the masculine a-stem inflection type (which
>  are so called because they had a stem ending in -a in Common
>  Germanic), which in Old English had genitive singular in -es
>  and nom/acc plur in -as, spread to other nouns regardless of
>  original inflection class and gender. It didn't happen
>  overnight, and even today some 'weak plurals' remain in
>  _children, oxen_.
Wouldn't those be the "strong plurals"?

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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